[PhantomGremlin]

capturing outgoing pcap data

Why wouldn't that data be encrypted? All you would see is packets going to specific IP addresses. No way to analyze the contents.

Of course, the data might not be encrypted. Why go thru the effort? Because of the large quantity of data being passed back and forth by almost all Internet connected devices, it's tedious to interpret what's happening even if the flows are completely open.

[manarth]

  Why wouldn't that data be encrypted?

Because manufacturers are rubbish?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/17/samsung_smart_tv_pri...

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Experience would suggest the chances of the data being encrypted are very low.

[computator]

> The data might not be encrypted. Why go thru the effort?

It's true that a lot of IoT devices communications are not encrypted.

But what concerns me is that they'll start encrypting everything so that we can't analyze what's being transmitted. Not for our privacy but to prevent us from knowing what they're doing.

[jasonjayr]

Speaking of encryption ....

If they're capturing the image and sending it back to themselves for classification ... arn't they breaking their HDCP license?

[chris_wot]

I think they were only sampling areas of the screen.