โ๏ธ๐จ 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. Your TV is relaying strangers' web traffic from your home IP, your bandwidth, your address attached to whatever those scraping jobs touch.
Roku, Fire TV and Google TV banned the practice. Samsung and LG didn't. The culprit is Bright Data's proxy SDK, which rides inside Tizen and webOS apps, 200+ on webOS alone. Datacenter IPs get blocked, home IPs don't.
Include Security reverse-engineered the SDK and found its relay protocol has no message signing, authentication, or device attestation. Their words: less secure than typical malware command-and-control.
To make things worse, they found that in iOS the relay tunnel binds straight to the physical network interface, so it routes around any VPN the user is running.
Bright Data's config also ships per-country tiers. Devices in Uzbekistan and Oman are cleared to relay down to 1% battery, with data caps up to 60x the worldwide default.
Before the BaCkDoOrEd replies land: technically you agreed. In practice you were enrolled into a global proxy network you were never given the information to refuse. And these exit nodes drag down your IP's reputation, potentially leaving you with blocks from providers.
The Daily Degen - Friday, June 5th, 2026
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Isnโt it something that Polymarkets gets to predict regime changes now? Where could they be getting this insider information?
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel is likely to be removed from power by year-end, as Trump imposes an illegal blockade on the country, and slowly starves off 10 million Cubans.
64% chance per Polymarkets!
Meanwhile,
Trump says that Cuba is the next country they will โhelpโ (ie. take over and exploit), after Iran.
Trump: "It's sort of collapsed. And we're gonna handle that as soon as we finish-- I like to do one thing at a time. We'll take care of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and as son as that is done, on our way, back we'll just make a brief stopover."
"I think everyone should have alternatives to the banks. The plan is to have digital money and do away with exchangeable pieces of paper, because you can do business outside the system with paper..."
โ Ray Peat (2022)
We have been the most generous country in the world, to our detriment.
25% of all Mexicans live in the US. 70% rely on welfare.
~10% of Guatemalans live here. 77% are on welfare
12% of Nicaraguans live here. 75% rely on welfare
12% of Haitians live here. 53% rely on welfare
โ ๏ธ New "IronWorm" supply-chain attack: 30+ npm packages from @ asteroiddao shipped a malicious Rust binary firing on preinstall.
It sweeps 86 env vars + 20 credential files (AWS, GCP, Vault, npm, plus AI keys like Anthropic & OpenAI), hits Exodus wallets, hides behind an eBPF rootkit, and beacons over Tor. Self-propagates via npm Trusted Publishing OIDC, with backdated commits faked as claude/dependabot/renovate.