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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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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

A note on what the partner list proves: Being listed in Bright Data’s config means an integration might have existed at some point. It does not by itself prove that a specific publisher’s currently-shipping app(s) includes the SDK in production. For any named publisher, per-app verification is required.

I'm not sure what this article is claiming is happening? My TV is browsing websites? Why haven't they proven it? Seems like it would be relatively simple to monitor the web traffic from the TV to see if that's happening, then they wouldn't put a disclaimer about it being unproven, Are they asking me to do the verification work for them?