Excuse me for being skeptical, but I read a rather peculiar story about a hacked smart TV this week.
The report (archived here for posterity in case it ever disappears), on the website of Indian news channel Zee News, claims that hackers were able to secretly capture intimate footage of a married couple and upload it to a porn website.
According to the report, porn lover Rajesh Kumar (the news report says his name has been changed to protect his privacy) found a video of himself and his wife on an X-rated website.
How did it get there? Well, according to the article, “cybersecurity experts” discovered that a hacker had hijacked control of the camera in Rajesh’s smart TV and captured footage of him as he “canoodled” with his wife on the sofa.
Then, for reasons best known to the hacker, the recording of the rumpy-pumpy was uploaded to a porn site.
Subsequent investigations revealed that because Rajesh used to visit porn sites, a hacker on one such site could have easily broken into the TV – just like computers are hacked into – and used the in- built camera remotely to capture the live feed. Because the TV was WiFi enabled, the recorded video was also uploaded online – all without the knowledge of Rajesh and his wife.
Hmm… I’m not sure I understand how someone’s frequent visits to a porn site would make it “easy” to break into a TV and capture live footage of a couple having sex (durin ..
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