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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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[โ€“] Maroon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Probably a dumb question, but do these devices attempt to reach a specific domain? Can that domain be blocked with something like a PiHole or AdGuardHome?

[โ€“] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

It's in the article.