Researchers flipped an LG TV's physical mic mute switch to off and still recorded the room through a connected webcam the switch never touches. It is wild. Gamers Nexus and Level1Techs spent 500 hours and $70,000 tearing these TVs apart, and every off switch turned out to be decorative. They disabled voice recognition in the settings menu, then re-enabled all of it from the command line. They unplugged the Ethernet cable and the TV kept recording anyway, saving everything locally and uploading…