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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 (blog.includesecurity.com)
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[–] 12 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

Ehhh...yeah, maybe, but I think that the problem is really broader than that.

Petflix, a Roku app documented by The Verge, is a representative case. Its opt-in screen reads: “To enjoy Petflix for free with fewer ads, you are allowing Bright Data to occasionally use your device’s free resources and IP address to download public web data from the internet...

Say you have kids. And your kids have friends over. Are you curating what "free" apps your kids' friends have on their phones that they connect to your WiFi network?

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  • [–] 24 points 4 months ago

    Those kids had to sit through the security PowerPoint before getting the Wi-Fi just like my kids did. If they fail the phishing test they comes around a week after the presentation they will not make it on my devices whitelist.

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