residential proxy

The detail that got me in the Mnemonic write-up isn't that Samsung TV apps were reselling residential bandwidth. It's which app. A Pac-Man game that Samsung itself had put in the Editor's Choice row. Not something sideloaded, not a sketchy IPTV player you had to go hunting for. The store's own...

KrebsOnSecurity ran a piece this week that I have not stopped thinking about. Security firm Spur went through the LG webOS app store and found that more than 42 percent of the apps there ship with an SDK that quietly turns the TV into a residential proxy node. Not obscure sideloaded junk either...