tvs in your home

tvs in your home

the tv screens, computer screens, labtop screens, cameras,phones,cell phones and speakers in them all can be activated and used as a device of seeing and listening into your home.

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this tech has been in effect for about 10 or more years now. the signals can be tapped into and that info to be sent somewhere else. the tvs,cameras,phones,cell phones,and computers of today and the electronics inside make it easier for the screens to act as a camera and the speakers to act as a microphone. this is no new news. this tech has been around for awhile. taping into signals. example phone taping. signals are all around you. if you buy a police scanner, if you punch in the right frequency to a cell phone, you can pick up that signal and listen in. this is old news. they can also pick up cell phone signals off your cameras and look at you. this is old news. the tvs in your home can be accessed. tvs are already capable for your screens to be cameras and the speakers to be microphones. signals have been around for some time. this is old news. i cannot beleive people do not know this. some of you have probably noticed that once in a great while someone comes on your phone talking to someone else and you come in and they say who is this on here. this happens alot to people who live close together in apartments who have cell phones , or cordless phones with the same signal. more old news. get a grip. it is already here.


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How can TV screens be used as cameras? Do you have more information on this, or links? Thanks!

Originally posted by estrip

tvs in your home

the tv screens, computer screens, labtop screens, cameras,phones,cell phones and speakers in them all can be activated and used as a device of seeing and listening into your home.

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Would really enjoy seeing the entire story. I need a laugh. The link doesn't work.

take a look at this thred it is the same thing your talking about
www.abovetopsecret.com...'

I am an electronics engineer. One word. Nope. CRT's are a one way ticket. LCD and/or LED screens are also one way. If a device was slipped into televisions tp monitor your home it is independent of the tv itself. It would be much easier to do it with your phone.

In order for that to happen would have to have a camera with audio recording hooked up to it,television has none of these items

thanks duffster,
i have no link , i just put down check local library, media , electronics books and signals and that is what i got when i did it .
i know that they do it, i do not know how they do it. like duffster said check out this, so i did. this does go on, check it out electronics buffs. take apart some of the new tv screens and see for yourself.

If if there is a camera in my tv then somebody is suffering through a shot of me sitting in my boxers and scratching myself. I'll keep the computer turned away though, I don't want them to know I'm writing my opinions on a massive public website. They might figure out what I'm thinking.

As was said, Televisions , monitors are one way. Essentially a bucket of information (buffer) sequentially updates the device's screen.
Hence why the more memory on your video card the higher the resolution you can run.
As far as the audio component, speakers are also output devices and can't be turned into an input device or microphone.

This sounds more like the misconstrued information pertaining to cell phones which CAN be activated remotely and the microphone used as a listening device.

Unless the battery is removed of course.

Originally posted by nh_ee
As far as the audio component, speakers are also output devices and can't be turned into an input device or microphone.

That's not true.

All Speakers are Microphones:

Strange as it may seem, a loudspeaker can be re-tasked as a microphone. Just about any speaker can be converted to be used as a microphone. It seems an odd statement at first sight, because speakers and microphones look quite different, and it seems to defy everyday perception that you could conceivably use a speaker designed for outputting sound into something that can pick up sound. But, there it is, it's true!

i can make a speaker into a microphone using simple elecronics, and i know little of electronics and i have no degrees either. in the 90s my dad had an old police scanner and i use to punch in different frequencies and listen to peoples conversations. no lie. they have devices to check to see if cameras are present or fake. do you watch tv. check out cheeters. the device used to check for cameras or fakes. when on. try again.

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Actually you don't even need to do any rewiring or add new circuits to demonstrate this. Just take a pair of cheap headphones and plug them into the microphone jack on your computer. You'll find you can speak into the earpiece and it works quite well as a mic.

thanks, ian mclean, so when people talk, we all find the truth out there. this is why i love this website. talk, learn thru finding out things and posting.

The old days of using a police scanner to listen to telephone calls are dead. The old 800 Mhz analog systems have been upgraded to giza-hertz ranges along with digital encryption. You need serious radios for intercepting and listening to these calls. You can still sometimes capture home wireless phones using the old 900 MHz standard that went out in the 90's, the range for these calls are no further than 200-300 feet though.

As for cameras in TV, only as an after built feature installed by ... you put name here. No government agency will do this as they don't have the manpower to watch what "we" do while watching TV. To think this is done wide scale or industry wide is ridiculous. People need to get out the tin foil hats.

Speakers can become microphones, not a real problem. Only real problem is what to do now. The audio has to go somewhere. Unless there is specific changes to circuits, it just acts like a microphone turned off. You have to have the ability to send the audio somewhere if you are using a microphone, hence the changed circuitry. BTW, if it works as a speaker, then it is a speaker. If it is quite... now you know.

Old cell phones and then only specific models had the ability to be used as microphones and capture camera when not in use. New models can not have this done unless they have been modified by someone, again you name the party.

If you really think "the Man" is watching or listening at everything you are doing, you are either doing something you shouldn't be or just paranoid.

It is true Op and it not new technology. Why it is set in place I hate to speculate but have my ideas. I was told long before 10 years ago that this was happening by a very connected source. It is not good.

Originally posted by estrip

tvs in your home

the tv screens, computer screens, labtop screens, cameras,phones,cell phones and speakers in them all can be activated and used as a device of seeing and listening into your home.

(visit the link for the full news article)

I hate to pick nits here but it REALLY bugs me when I see someone ( and I see it EVERYWHERE ) use the term LAB TOP when it is LAP TOP - unless you are speaking about a computer terminal located in an actual LAB. If you open the screen and sit it on your lap then its a LAP TOP.

Unless you are speaking of this Canadian company.

LAPTOP COMPUTER COMPANY

Dorian Soran

It's the cable boxes that worry me. And here's an official press relase stating why they think it is good for the consumer.

In regards to surveillance techniques, I have been the object of, and witness, to various forms of it. Personal experience was what is now deemed old school; telephone taps and audio taps that were installed in the outlets in an old apartment.

Phone taps were tedious, time consuming and expensive for whomever wanted to be privvy to your calls. All of the recordings had to be transcribed and highlighted for the interested party and whatever info they were after. You could also tell when the line was tapped by pressing a number on your phone and waiting to see how long it took before the "If you'd like to make a call" recording came on. Whenever I had to dial really fast I knew it was time for a sweep (and to get a new b.f.)

Audio mics in the outlets could be broadcast and listened to live by whomever was paying to hear it.

That was 15 years ago. In the era of landlines and pre-internet.

The ways to surveil someone now are endless and infinitely cheaper. It is no longer a matter of how connected your P.I. is (if you are personally predisposed to watching/listening to someone) anyone can inexpensively acquire the gear to eavesdrop on you and record your movements via cell phone signals.

As to Big Brother surveillance, I don't think it is a matter of someone sitting around wanting to, or needing to be a dedicated, watcher of you. It is a matter of someone wanting to/needing to be bothered to look in on you and figure out a way to arrest you, intimidate you, etc. if the need arisies.

That my friends is the danger of ubiquituos technology.

TWISI

thats why I love message boards so much, because I can not only read what you have to say and get a feel for who you are, but I get to see what you look like as well as what your house looks like too. And I gotta say, a lot of you need to clean your houses and change your clothes once in a while. j/k (look who's talking Mr.doesn't change shirts until someone notices) (hey, water aint free you know)

Seriously though, I believe that is possible with most cable boxes that we have, but I do not think that TV tubes can go both ways, although, their audio surely can. Or Im completely wrong and there is some candid cam site for all of us... if anyone finds it, please dont post the link.

The devices such as TVs would need some sort of network connection to send the video or images to, if by some way they could even "spy" on their owners.

TV speakers can indeed work as microphones, but they wouldn't pick up much, especially when turned on. I remember a spy documentary about the Cold War that showed how they did it, wiring transmitters into portable radios, TVs and such.

A microphone is basically just a speaker in reverse - there's nothing incredibly technical about that.

But that begs the question - who the heck wants to watch you while you watch TV? All they would see would be dough-eyed people watching porno or something. Not pleasant.

In my part of Australia, the police radio system is still analog - so my scanner still works, and it also gets helicopter rescue, fire, air traffic, ambulance, and the like.

It's going to be a pain for journalists when all of the police network goes digital, though.

When I was 12 I discovered how to use the TV tuner to listen to the old analog mobile phone network - needless to say, that was very interesting! Then the digital network came into being, the old one was phased out, and my fun was short lived.

But in short, I don't believe my toaster is spying on me.

If I did, I'd be more concerned about my mental state at that point