Manxome comments on An Israeli company has backdoored hundreds of millions of households through countless Smart TV apps, and they're quietly turning Samsung and LG TVs into exit nodes for AI web-scraping

[–] Manxome@sh.itjust.works 19 points 4 months ago (5 children)

One approach per the article:

Approach 1: DNS block (trivial, effective for network-routed devices):

proxyjs.brdtnet.com
proxyjs.luminatinet.com
proxyjs.bright-sdk.com
clientsdk.bright-sdk.com
clientsdk.brdtnet.com

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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Pardon my ignorance but how do you know what DNS server to block?

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[–] Ok_imagination@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

In the article they have this info under defense approaches.

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[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

It's not blocking a DNS server, it's using DNS to block their specific servers.

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[–] manopor@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

I blocked them as wildcard domains on Android with app RethinkDNS.

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[–] Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago

Nice, they were already blocked on my router

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