On 13/03/2017 15:50, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 15:10:37 +0000 (GMT), Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Just send round and "engineer" with a tool box and "ID" with a
story
that the TV is subject to a "recall" and free safety check.
They'll
know what make/model TV it is, when/where it was bought and the
names
of the people at the property.

If you've identified a possible terrorist and are going to send a man
round to install special software on his TV...

Something wrong with that sentance. Can't see why not, might yield
other interesting information from things seen lying around.

Also, reading more deeply on the subject, this does indeed appear to be
the use case that the CIA/NSA devised for this particular hack.


--
Cheers,

John.

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