Appropriately enough, they are looking to hire a "Director of Security" in their Sydney office.

https://www.atlassian.com/company/careers/jobs/listing?org=ATLASSIAN&cws=1&rid=688

(Actually, Atlassian make some really good software and it would be a great place to work.)

You are assuming the tape you put over the camera is not transparent at IR or UV light frequencies - think of the Sony 'night-vision' cameras that could see through clothes.

You are also assuming the gain of the microphone can't be turned up remotely to hear enough. Some decent signal processing can remove a lot of the underlying noise to recover the what is being said.

Ask yourself too, how many owners are going to keep the TV firmware updated to deal with the inevitable security holes that will be found?

Personally, I think it's not paranoid at all to question the pros and cons of these new 'features', inevitable as they may be.

I RTFA too despite this being contrary to normal /. SOP. He certainly has a way with words and I am impressed with the way he demolished every point they made. It's almost a pity that he is no longer a lawyer.

At the end, my only conclusion is that Monster is to speaker cables what Scientology is to well, anything...