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CIA Smart TV Surveillance
From KiriPedia, the archive of John Kiriakou's on-record words
Based on 4 recorded interviews · Last updated
Per John Kiriakou, a CIA technical capability — disclosed publicly by the 2017 Vault 7 leaks — to convert a smart television's speaker system into a covert listening microphone even while the television appears to be switched off.
According to John Kiriakou, the CIA can repurpose a smart television’s speaker system as a covert microphone, enabling audio surveillance even when the TV is turned off.[1] He has described the same capability elsewhere in stronger terms: the CIA can convert smart TVs and speakers into microphones to listen to conversations without a warrant, using technology he estimates is roughly 20 years ahead of general public understanding.[2]
Kiriakou frames this and comparable disclosures as only a small sample of what is actually known, drawn from leaks and whistleblowers rather than any systematic accounting: “it’s incalculable how much is out there that we don’t know.”[3]
The clip’s second life
By December 2025 the capability was circulating again as a viral clip, and Kiriakou was being asked whether it was real. His answer was flat — “Oh, no. They very much can do that” — followed by the observation that the material was not new: “it’s funny to me that this clip that you’re talking about has taken on a second life, because that information was released in 2017 by Josh Schulte.”[4]
He traces the chain of publication explicitly — Joshua Schulte sent it to WikiLeaks and WikiLeaks released it, as part of Vault 7 — and restates the mechanism: “the CIA can turn on your smart TV without it looking like it’s on. They can turn the speaker into a microphone and they can listen to everything that goes on in that room. All the while you are thinking that the TV is off.”[5]
Sourced from John Kiriakou's on-record public statements. See his profile for the full body of his interviews, podcast appearances, and short-form video.
