College hackathon roots LG TV, finds it quietly sharing location data
WeldPond · x · 2026-10-30
At a college hackathon, a student team rooted an LG smart TV and discovered it was sharing users' location data. The poster, a security professional, praises the event as exactly the kind of hands-on auditing of consumer devices that surfaces privacy issues vendors don't disclose.
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