favoredponcho@lemmy.zipcake to Privacy@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 days agoAn 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-scrapingblog.includesecurity.comexternal-linkmessage-square32linkfedilinkarrow-up1248arrow-down10 cross-posted to: privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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minus-squareDaddleDew@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·2 days agoPardon my ignorance but how do you know what DNS server to block?
minus-squareOk_imagination@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 days agoIn the article they have this info under defense approaches.
minus-squarerc__buggy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoIt’s not blocking a DNS server, it’s using DNS to block their specific servers.
minus-squaremanopor@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoI blocked them as wildcard domains on Android with app RethinkDNS.
Pardon my ignorance but how do you know what DNS server to block?
In the article they have this info under defense approaches.
It’s not blocking a DNS server, it’s using DNS to block their specific servers.
I blocked them as wildcard domains on Android with app RethinkDNS.