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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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[–] 7 points 4 months ago (8 children)

I maintain that everyone who buys every pice of smart crap tech is a fucking idiot.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Depends. This year I bought a smart-crap air purifier. It can only be used connected to the manufacturer's app, connected online.

    Except, this smart-crap is powered by an ESP32 system on chip, a very popular development kit amongst DIYers and electronic hobbyists. Some smartass has already created a program to make use off 100% of this air purifier functionalities, connecting only to Home Assistant, completely locally! Unboxed the thing, tear it down, flash the chip, and BOOM ! Turn the smart-crap into a reasonable Home-Automation device. All thanks to the collective efforts of smart, altruistic people.

    I am all for people buying all sorts of smart-crap devices if they hack them and share instructions online :D

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Oh, link? Me interested

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Correction, they're right ignorant, smart, or very smart.

    Ignorant: accepts everything, connects tv to internet.

    Smart: Blocks Tv from internet.

    Very Smart: removes the WiFi chip from the TV. Stuffs the LAN cable with caulk. Boom, subsidized TV.

    Genius: creates their own TV OS for their specific TV and deletes the regular OS.

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