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
arrow-up1248arrow-down1external-linkAn 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.comfavoredponcho@lemmy.zipcake to Privacy@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 days agomessage-square32linkfedilink cross-posted to: privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
minus-squareLumisal@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 hours agoCorrection, 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.
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.