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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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[–] BrickEater@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago (1 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

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, link? Me interested

[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Oh nice, you can even turn off the display lights!

How quiet is the filter?

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours 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.

[–] ichwillhierraus@feddit.org 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Hi. Idiot here.

How i am supossed tl watch tv if i pay no subscription and in my country there is no open tv signal?

Thanks for being so smart and helping idiots like me.

[–] BrickEater@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago

I don't watch TV so that's a you problem. And you can watch TV on a monitor, its just not as big.