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An insecure Smart TV ecosystem has implications for all of the involved parties: Consumers, content providers, vendors, and broadcasters. Implications include severe privacy and even safety issues for consumers, compromised DRM systems for content providers, as well as a lack of trust in vendors and broadcasters.

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Michéle, B. (2015). Security & Privacy Implications. In: Smart TV Security. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20994-4_4

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