hex1d ago

But if *I* hijack *their* devices it's a "felony."

https://blog.includesecurity.com/2026/06/the-smart-tv-in-your-livingroom-is-a-node-in-the-aiscraping-economy/

The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy - Include Security Research Blog

In this post we look under the hood of BrightData's SDK and how it turns ordinary consumer TVs into exit nodes of an enormous commercial, residential proxy network leveraged by the AI industry to scrape web data and train language learning models.

Include Security Research Blog
Show threadhex1d ago
The good side of this is that there's a hijack-able data stream that anyone can use to poison LLM training sets, and they can't do shit because it's on *your* network.
Show threadkkarhan1d ago

@Hex Personally, I'd just flatout refuse to use/buy a "Smart TV"…

I have a stupid panel and it works fine!

https://kolektiva.social/@Hex/116706856726937559

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But if *I* hijack *their* devices it's a "felony." https://blog.includesecurity.com/2026/06/the-smart-tv-in-your-livingroom-is-a-node-in-the-aiscraping-economy/

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Show threadAaron Sawdey, Ph.D.
@kkarhan Annoy them by buying a smart tv and then denying it access to the internet in your routers rules 😎
Jun 7 at 5:16amWeb
Show threadkkarhan1d ago

@acsawdey or better yet:

Don't buy at all.
- If it ain't broken, no need to replace it!
https://mastodon.social/@kkarhan/116707152390010818

Like I'd just flatout refuse to buy a TV that doesn't allow me to just plug & play!