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Your LG OLED is watching your living room while you sleep. Gamers Nexus just ran 135 minutes of bench tests. Retail LG OLED TVs. Including the G5. Microphone stays active in standby. Screen is dark. Remote is down. Microphone is still on. Recording clear audio. Storing it locally. Uploading it when the internet comes back. The TV was disconnected from Ethernet. Still kept recording. The researchers put audio near the mic. The TV logged it. Stored the file. Uploaded it the moment connectivity returned. Plain text voice logs sitting on the device. LG says it has sold 216 million smart TVs globally. LG's advertising arm claims access to 363 million secondary devices in the US. Secondary. Meaning devices that aren't the TV. Your phone. Your partner's smartwatch. Your kid's laptop. The TV scans your entire network in standby. Maps every device. Gets their IP addresses. Logs nearby Wi-Fi networks. Signal strengths. Location data. Then feeds it to LG Ad Solutions. Automatic Content Recognition catches what's on screen. Even your HDMI input. Your Apple TV. Your gaming console. All logged. But the microphone in standby is the part that hits different. Because standby means off to you. To LG it means the listening device is still powered. Just not telling you. Researchers found remote code execution vulnerabilities in webOS. So your network-scanning, audio-recording, data-harvesting television is also potentially hackable by anyone on your Wi-Fi. LG says nothing. No comment. No response. No explanation. Just microphones in 216 million living rooms. All quietly working while the owner thinks the TV is asleep.

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