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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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[–] Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

So how do we disable/sabotage that feature?

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 23 points 2 weeks ago

Don't put your TV on the Internet

[–] Manxome@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

One approach per the article:

Approach 1: DNS block (trivial, effective for network-routed devices):

proxyjs.brdtnet.com
proxyjs.luminatinet.com
proxyjs.bright-sdk.com
clientsdk.bright-sdk.com
clientsdk.brdtnet.com

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Pardon my ignorance but how do you know what DNS server to block?

[–] Ok_imagination@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

In the article they have this info under defense approaches.

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's not blocking a DNS server, it's using DNS to block their specific servers.

[–] manopor@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

I blocked them as wildcard domains on Android with app RethinkDNS.

[–] Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Nice, they were already blocked on my router

[–] ArgentRaven@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

I've had great success with using a PC instead. My TV acts like a glorified monitor. I take an old PC, run Ethernet to it (Wi-Fi if it's capable) and install Linux mint for the PC's operating system. Windows works if you have a supported version. But since it's always an old PC, I just use mint. Then I get a cheapo wireless keyboard, and when I want to watch TV I wake the PC up from hibernation, turn on the TV and speakers, and I can use Firefox with Ublock origin to keep ads and tracking to a minimum.

I couldn't ever go back to using janky TV apps and being suspicious that it's watching/listening to me.