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 threadGabriel H. Nunes

@Hex
I am surprised by how easy it is to bypass a VPN on iOS!

"The SDK’s config ships a flag “use_netifs”: true. That flag triggers code in the SDK binary that constructs its NWConnection with a specific required interface: en0 (WiFi) or pdp_ip0 (cellular), rather than using the system default route.

On iOS, this bypasses any configured VPN’s tun0 interface entirely. The peer tunnel does not cross a user-configured VPN, even when the rest of the app’s HTTPS traffic does."

#VPN #iOS #privacy

Jun 7 at 9:39amFedilab
Show threadChristoph Schmees1d ago

@nunesgh

Surprised not I am.

#unplugapple #unplugTrump

@Hex