You sit down to relax, put on your favorite show, and settle in for a night of binge-watching. But while you’re watching your TV… your TV is watching you.
Smart TVs take constant snapshots of everything you watch. Sometimes hundreds of snapshots a second.
Welcome to the future of “entertainment.”
Well, so, about that.
A lot of TV’s will form mesh nets with same brand-or even across brands³-, until they find one that is connected. I’ve even heard reports of one with a sim card¹.
¹in a 'smoke filled room’² ²okay it was a van. A smoke filled van. And she was on some other stuff too.
³OS based i think? So instead of Sony’s seeking Sony’s or samsungs seeking samsungs, its android tvs or roku’s or whatever forming meshes. Don’t quote me on that though
Where can I read about these mesh networks?
It’s the same thing apple’s Find My runs on. Devices bounce off each other like the fires of gondor
Think there was an article in… I think wired a couple years back.