Samsung had some explaining to do after someone read in its terms and conditions the claim that Smart TVs can eavesdrop on you and send this data to third parties and therefore you shouldn't talk about private things in front of them. This caused outrage among TV owners (and not only among them), who did not like that smart TVs have the ambitions of those in Orwell's 1984. Therefore, the company clarified that its TVs do not listen to you and only respond to certain phrases that are related to voice control. She also emphasized that you can turn off the voice functions at any time if you are concerned.
Samsung also said that the data is secure and no one can access it without its permission. However, security expert David Lodge of Pen Test Partners pointed out that while the data may be stored on a secure server, it is not at all encrypted when sent and could be accessed by a third party at any time. Voice searches for things on the web, along with the TV's MAC address and system version, are sent to Nuance for analysis, whose services then translate the voice into the text you see on the screen.
However, the sending takes place via port 443, it is not protected by a firewall, and the data is not encrypted using SSL. These are only XML and binary data packets. Similar to the sent data, the received data is not encrypted in any way and is sent only in clear text that can be read by absolutely anyone. In this way, for example, it can be used to spy on people, and hackers can also modify web searches remotely and can thus endanger the user's team by searching for confidential addresses. They can even save your voice commands, just decode the sound and play it through the player.
*Source: The Register
