does this freak anyone else out too? it's so orwellian it makes my skin crawl.

Is your TV watching you? Samsung's latest sets with built-in cameras spark concerns

Samsung's latest breed of plasmas and HDTVs may allow hackers, or even the company itself, to see and hear you and your family, and collect extremely personal data.

The new models, which are closer than ever to personal computers, offer high-tech features that have previously been unavailable, including a built-in HD camera, microphone set and face and speech recognition software.

This software allows Samsung to recognise who is viewing the TV and personalises each person’s experience accordingly. The TV also listens and responds to specific voice commands.

High-tech: Samsung's latest sets feature built-in HD cameras, microphone sets and face and speech recognition software

But some critics have suggested that the TV company could be spying on you, or even watching and listening to you - without your knowledge - through these features.

Gary Merson, who runs website HD guru, said that because there is no way of disconnecting the camera and microphone, users cannot be 100 per cent sure that Samsung is not collecting data and passing it on to third parties.

Merson said: ‘What concerns us is the integration of both an active camera and microphone. A Samsung representative tells us you can deactivate the voice feature; however this is done via software, not a hard switch like the one you use to turn a room light on or off.

‘And unlike other TVs, which have cameras and microphones as add-on accessories connected by a single, easily removable USB cable, you can't just unplug these sensors.

Invasive: Gary Merson suggests that the Samsung's new models could be hacked into

‘During our demo, unless the face recognition learning feature was activated, there was no indication as to whether the camera (such as a red light) and audio mics are on. And as far as the microphone is concerned, there is no way to physically disconnect it or be assured it is not picking up your voice.’

Merson claims that this problem raises questions about whether Samsung can watch someone watching their TV, and listen to them, at will, via the microphone and internet connection.

It also sparks concerns, he says, about where Samsung stores this data that it collects and how secure it is.

He goes on to suggest that the TV sets could be hacked into if, for instance, they are run by operating systems that have a prior history of hacking.

When Samsung was approached to provide information on the set's privacy features or the company's policies, it did not respond.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2117493/Samsungs-latest-TV-sets-built-cameras-spark-concerns.html#ixzz1ptHjYww0

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cut that out, you!!!!!

XxAxX said:

cut that out, you!!!!!

you bastard!! i'm bald since the chemotherapy!!!!!!!!!

^kidding!

there. let's see what happens

XxAxX said:

you think maybe if i put the word 'breasts' in the title people will click on the thread? would that be too desperate??? not that i need attention, y'know. just wondering

I totally clicked on it just for that.

Heh. Boobies.

XxAxX said:

^kidding!

Efan said:

XxAxX said:

you think maybe if i put the word 'breasts' in the title people will click on the thread? would that be too desperate??? not that i need attention, y'know. just wondering

I totally clicked on it just for that.

Heh. Boobies.

it's all about marketing just intersperse your words TITS with subliminal messages ASS such as 'breasts' and you will garner SEX more attention that way

lust said:

XxAxX said:

^kidding!

Glad I saw that before seeing the previous one. That would have been a bad own goal. In regards to the tellys, it is a bit odd but as an exhibitionist I think I'd get one and not tell the mrs that there might be a room full of people in Osaka wathing us shag on the couch.

that would be quite the reality show

me havin always been a paranoid and

qwite interested in things scientific

have always felt if one can see in

then it was possible to see out AND

that anything havin capabilities like these

are not a figment of the imagination

but a reality that the government holds

UNTIL it has put it in place as a weapon first

THEN as a commotity that can be a money

make in the public arena.

facial reconition is the step to your games

and tv being able to read you and KNOW

how you feel and whut your'e thinkin as

thoughts are othin more than electric

impulses caused by chemical changes

in the body

Thanks for posting this! I love my Samsung HD, and was looking forward to buying a larger, 3D-capable one this fall. I'll have to make sure that whatever I get does NOT have these features!

KingBAD said:

me havin always been a paranoid and

qwite interested in things scientific

have always felt if one can see in

then it was possible to see out AND

that anything havin capabilities like these

are not a figment of the imagination

but a reality that the government holds

UNTIL it has put it in place as a weapon first

THEN as a commotity that can be a money

make in the public arena.

facial reconition is the step to your games

and tv being able to read you and KNOW

how you feel and whut your'e thinkin as

thoughts are othin more than electric

impulses caused by chemical changes

in the body

yeah. i think i heard that some shadow organization actually created facebook to get the facial recognition thing in place. easiest thing in the world. give people fame and they trade their privacy voluntarily.

we have facial recognition, like the TV program capable of recognizing, storing and using individual preferences based on facial recognition features, with obvious weapon's potential, for tracking people in real time.

and we also have something called the 'speech jamming silencer' which basically feeds back a person's own words at an intensely magnified rate, causing them to stop talking. the ultimate library/theater/wedding silencer.

so how long until there is a similar function against a person's own unique brainwave patterns? it's a fact we emit electrical impulses, or brainwaves, when, as you said, chemical thought processes occur. what's to stop the creation of a reflective thought fuckerupper thingy?

and wouldn't that suck? a ray gun which can blank out someone's mind??????

william shatner, if you're an ORGer and you're reading this, orgnote me

[Edited 3/23/12 17:59pm]

eyewishuheaven said:

Thanks for posting this! I love my Samsung HD, and was looking forward to buying a larger, 3D-capable one this fall. I'll have to make sure that whatever I get does NOT have these features!

i'd physically cover the aperture for mic and camera, if i bought one of these models. duct tape, maybe tinfoil

XxAxX said:

KingBAD said:

me havin always been a paranoid and

qwite interested in things scientific

have always felt if one can see in

then it was possible to see out AND

that anything havin capabilities like these

are not a figment of the imagination

but a reality that the government holds

UNTIL it has put it in place as a weapon first

THEN as a commotity that can be a money

make in the public arena.

facial reconition is the step to your games

and tv being able to read you and KNOW

how you feel and whut your'e thinkin as

thoughts are othin more than electric

impulses caused by chemical changes

in the body

yeah. i think i heard that some shadow organization actually created facebook to get the facial recognition thing in place. easiest thing in the world. give people fame and they trade their privacy voluntarily.

we have facial recognition, like the TV program capable of recognizing, storing and using individual preferences based on facial recognition features, with obvious weapon's potential, for tracking people in real time.

and we also have something called the 'speech jamming silencer' which basically feeds back a person's own words at an intensely magnified rate, causing them to stop talking. the ultimate library/theater/wedding silencer.

so how long until there is a similar function against a person's own unique brainwave patterns? it's a fact we emit electrical impulses, or brainwaves, when, as you said, chemical thought processes occur. what's to stop the creation of a reflective thought fuckerupper thingy?

and wouldn't that suck? a ray gun which can blank out someone's mind??????

william shatner, if you're an ORGer and you're reading this, orgnote me

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Monkey uses brainwaves to control prosthetic arm

Scientists train monkeys to control a human-like arm via electrodes implanted in their brains.

now my theory is this,

WITHOUT implanted electrodes it is possible

to read ones mind through electric impulses

with an external receiver electrode which would

collect data and store it, in a matter of time

all possible words know to subject/ all symbols

connected to thought patern would be stored.

THEN in a reverse pattern, usin a transmitter

electrode, be able to replace thoughts usin

electric impulses/ vibrations that change the

chemical reactions in subjects brain

i'm so fuckin smott

KingBAD said:

XxAxX said:

yeah. i think i heard that some shadow organization actually created facebook to get the facial recognition thing in place. easiest thing in the world. give people fame and they trade their privacy voluntarily.

we have facial recognition, like the TV program capable of recognizing, storing and using individual preferences based on facial recognition features, with obvious weapon's potential, for tracking people in real time.

and we also have something called the 'speech jamming silencer' which basically feeds back a person's own words at an intensely magnified rate, causing them to stop talking. the ultimate library/theater/wedding silencer.

so how long until there is a similar function against a person's own unique brainwave patterns? it's a fact we emit electrical impulses, or brainwaves, when, as you said, chemical thought processes occur. what's to stop the creation of a reflective thought fuckerupper thingy?

and wouldn't that suck? a ray gun which can blank out someone's mind??????

william shatner, if you're an ORGer and you're reading this, orgnote me

[Edited 3/23/12 17:59pm]

Monkey uses brainwaves to control prosthetic arm

Scientists train monkeys to control a human-like arm via electrodes implanted in their brains.

now my theory is this,

WITHOUT implanted electrodes it is possible

to read ones mind through electric impulses

with an external receiver electrode which would

collect data and store it, in a matter of time

all possible words know to subject/ all symbols

connected to thought patern would be stored.

THEN in a reverse pattern, usin a transmitter

electrode, be able to replace thoughts usin

electric impulses/ vibrations that change the

chemical reactions in subjects brain

i'm so fuckin smott

exactly, and i'm thinking they might already have this technology, in the early stages, for reading thoughts by using something like a directional microphone. i read that although they've had trouble getting the magnetic resonance imaging technology down to a portable size, they've got it small enough for two pople to move around. i mean yikes. must we wear metal hats all the time then?? personal privacy protecting electromagnetic bubble shields? maybe we'll live long enough to see the day we need to walk around with universal jamming units to ensure our protection in public places...

XxAxX said:

KingBAD said:

Monkey uses brainwaves to control prosthetic arm

Scientists train monkeys to control a human-like arm via electrodes implanted in their brains.

now my theory is this,

WITHOUT implanted electrodes it is possible

to read ones mind through electric impulses

with an external receiver electrode which would

collect data and store it, in a matter of time

all possible words know to subject/ all symbols

connected to thought patern would be stored.

THEN in a reverse pattern, usin a transmitter

electrode, be able to replace thoughts usin

electric impulses/ vibrations that change the

chemical reactions in subjects brain

i'm so fuckin smott

exactly, and i'm thinking they might already have this technology, in the early stages, for reading thoughts by using something like a directional microphone. i read that although they've had trouble getting the magnetic resonance imaging technology down to a portable size, they've got it small enough for two pople to move around. i mean yikes. must we wear metal hats all the time then?? personal privacy protecting electromagnetic bubble shields? maybe we'll live long enough to see the day we need to walk around with universal jamming units to ensure our protection in public places...

people would be amazed at whut the govm't is willin to do without

ones knowledge to further their ability to further control those

who would be OBTUSE to whutever their goals were....

SAD BUT TRUE.

you are more brilliant than to think that these things have not

been ALREADY manufactured. if you have the rudamentary

info about whut they have, THEY HAVE IT and are tryin to

do something more. and it's not that it's OWNED by the govm't

but with their knowledge with the hopes that they can get

first crack at usin it...

LIKE INVISIBILITY

technology like that is cool innit? we're lucky to be living now, seeing this huge wave of technological innovation. thing about this type of technology is, it's all vulnerable. (although, the invisibility 'cloak' might be different, i read it bends light around the object, migth not require power?), but lasers, silencers, stuff like that anything based on electeric current/transmission is failry easily disrupted at the end of the day, right? with a directional emp generator. poof!

XxAxX said:

technology like that is cool innit? we're lucky to be living now, seeing this huge wave of technological innovation. thing about this type of technology is, it's all vulnerable. (although, the invisibility 'cloak' might be different, i read it bends light around the object, migth not require power?), but lasers, silencers, stuff like that anything based on electeric current/transmission is failry easily disrupted at the end of the day, right? with a directional emp generator. poof!

it's a system of lcds that transmit the pic from one side to

the other makin it seem to not be there...

and it's all good 'til someone gets an eye poked out