If this screed is just about telegraphing your own wilful disregard for online safety and profound disinterest/absence of knowledge about what a locally connected hostile network device is capable of, then it’s hardly worth responding to.
However, if you’re trying to deliver an implied suggestion that “no-one should care”, then this actively harmful message deserves solid rejection. The consequences range from turning households into spam drones, to placing at-risk folks in physical peril through commoditised surveillance.
It remains an extraordinarily privileged and wonderful thing to live without fear of the capabilities of a corporate- or state-level actor. What’s not so wonderful is being reminded that many folks with this privilege lack the self-awareness to appreciate it.
I was responding to someone saying that their smart TV was full of adverts and how it's a requirement to block it. Where the convenience of the utility provided is greater than seeing an advert for a film on the menu page.
You've flipped it around to vulnerable people being surveilled by corporate/state level actors.
Why are Smart TVs singled out here? There's a tons of old Android phones that people use every day with sensitive information that are vulnerable to multiple exploits that will never get a patch.
Or Routers that never get a patch from their Vendor especially if it's a whitebox from an ISP and they've replaced it with a newer model.
It seems like Smart TVs have urban legends associated with them, I asked previously about the supposed "TV connecting to unsecured WIFI" thing that always comes up and nobody had any evidence:
I've no idea what your point is. But you do you.
Leverage access to pwn everything else on your network?
And how? So they have an exploit for the smart TV and then another device as well?
My Desktop/Laptop is supposed to be secured, and patched. Otherwise open wifi access points would be a bad idea.
Personally I think the the idea that the LAN is some walled garden where it's fine to relax security is a bad idea.
It is a bad idea, but it happens in practice. For instance, I can vouch for the security of my desktop (except for the times I run some random development stuff bound to 0.0.0.0, for convenient multi-machine access). I can't vouch for the security of my printer, or my IoT bridge. As long as it stays true, someone breaching a single device on your LAN is already creating extra security risk for your other devices.
Turn on the camera.
LG TVs from the past few years involve some level of voice control, so an attacker could be able to remotely turn on your microphone and listen in on conversations.
If my smart TV gets hacked, what are they going to do? Take my Netflix and YouTube credentials?
I've got an LG TV, there aren't huge adverts. It's faster than switching on my PS5 to watch something.
It even has DLNA so I can listen to my music collection off my NAS.
If it starts hacking my network, what's it going to do? Public key SSH is pretty strong. And anything sensitive that could be snooped on would be HTTPS.
So this smart TV hack is going to require a second exploit to get into my windows PC? or Linux boxes?