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Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@lemdro.id to c/privacy@programming.dev

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[–] zarathustrad@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't know how they work but I would assume that the mic is not always streaming, as you say it can't be due to battery.

I do not feel comfortable to assume that there is ZERO possibility that the mic can be made to stream without the physical button pressed ...

... unless I did the work to understand how it's wired and controlled, something I don't care to do. So I'll just assume they are unsafe spy devices until proven otherwise.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Fair enough. I certainly don't have the schematics for any of those devices made in the 2020s.