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LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other devices


https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/lg-tv-shown-capable-of-tracking-user-activity-even-when-offline/

My TiVo does this too, but, not so comprehensively. Here's some output from iftop.

192.168.1.255:2190 => 192.168.1.2:2190
224.0.0.251:5353 => 192.168.1.2:5353

The broadcast packet on port 2190 is called "TiVo Connect." That's TiVo trying to detect other TiVos on the LAN. The multicast packet on port 5353 is multicast DNS.

https://whatportis.com/ports/2190-tivoconnect-beacon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast_DNS

#spyware #perversion #privacy #surveillance #liberty #security #spying #unwarranted-investigation #recording #tracking #lg #lg-tv #scanning #lan #tivo

service discovery protocol

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#security #privacy #tracking #surveillance #spyware #lg #scanning #perversion #liberty #spying #unwarranted-investigation #recording #lg-tv #lan #tivo

Leave Windows 11 Idle for 24 Hours and Watch What Happens

Leave Windows and use Linux.
If you can't, because of whatever reason, run this script regularly:
https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat

#windows #linux #steam #proton #spyware #bloatware #recall #co-pilot #surveillance


Leave Windows 11 Idle for 24 Hours and Watch What Happens

For decades, Microsoft controlled PC gaming. If you wanted to play, you used Windows. It wasn't just the dominant operating system, it was the platform that ...
YouTube
#windows #linux #surveillance #steam #proton #spyware #bloatware #recall #co-pilot

Y'all know not to use #Temu right? Right???

Temu app contains ‘most dangerous’ #spyware in circulation: class action lawsuit | Fashion Dive
https://www.fashiondive.com/news/temu-class-action-lawsuit-data-collection/699328/

#security


Temu app contains ‘most dangerous’ spyware in circulation: class action lawsuit

The complaint alleges that the fast fashion giant gains access to “literally everything on your phone” once its app is downloaded.
Fashion Dive
#security #spyware #temu

#EU #PressFreedom #MediaLaw #Surveillance #Journalism #Spyware: "EU governments want to allow state surveillance of journalists and their interlocutors, including the use of spyware, if security authorities deem it necessary. This is according to documents from the ongoing EU negotiations on the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA), seen by Investigate Europe, netzpolitik.org and Follow the Money.

The EU media law, proposed by the European Commission last September, intends to protect journalists and the media against political control by governments and owners. These are visibly endangering freedom of expression and media diversity in several EU countries, most notably in Poland and Hungary but also elsewhere, as experts like the authors of the annual Media Pluralism Monitor report at the European University Institute in Florence, have warned for years."

https://www.investigate-europe.eu/en/2023/eu-media-freedom-act-governments-exemption-spy-surveillance-journalists/

EU governments plan ‘blank cheque’ to spy on journalists

France, Germany and the Netherlands among governments pushing for an exemption in new EU law which would give states power to monitor journalists’ electronic communications
Harald Schumann (Investigate Europe)
#EU #surveillance #journalism #spyware #pressfreedom #medialaw

☣️ This is why you should never trust your important information (like passwords!) to proprietary software like @1password.

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #privacy #security #infosec

🤡 #1Password becomes #spyware:

https://blog.1password.com/privacy-preserving-app-telemetry/

We're changing how we discover and prioritize improvements | 1Password

Learn about a new, privacy-preserving in-app telemetry system that 1Password is trialing with its employees.
1Password
#security #privacy #freesoftware #opensource #infosec #1password #spyware @1password

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