Internet of Shit

screw it, put a chip in it. say hello: [email protected]

[Internet of Shit @internetofshit]

i don’t want to live on this planet anymore

[Md Ismail Šojal 🕷️ @0x0SojalSec]

WTF, $3000 Samsung TV has an always-on mic, automatic content recognition, geo tracking, network mapping, and ships your data to Samsung + 400 partners.

Bro Rooted a brand-new 2025 Samsung TV after noticing absurdly targeted ads.

Firmware was locked down, so zero-days it was.
Got a root shell.

then found: always-on voice service, ACR, geo, full telemetry pipeline, and four separate DRM systems.

This isn’t a bug, It’s the product bro.

[Internet of Shit @internetofshit]

so when everyone thought Facebook was spying through your phone it turns out tv makers were the ones doing it all along, this is a nightmare

[log4j @log4j]

turns out it classifies what audio it hears, before reporting back to samsung.

sensor preferences, dog-barking and baby-crying event counters, and camera streaming duration are built into telemetry paths.

[Internet of Shit @internetofshit]

i just can’t figure out why a fridge should even get an update

[Ars Technica @arstechnica]

Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges https://t.co/CE0xCi4EUc

[Internet of Shit @internetofshit]

everything you’ve ever said about coffee in your house uploaded for ad mining

[Nomad @NomadsGalaxy]

Hey uh, @Keurig - what the hell is a COFFEE MACHINE uploading, let me double check...

ONE FUCKING TERABYTE OF DATA IN 10 DAYS!?!?

Immediately unplugging that. Getting my parents a new coffee machine.

[Internet of Shit @internetofshit]

that will be $99/month sir

[Alex Sexton @SlexAxton]

me: “ah let me set my alarm for a good night’s sleep”

<the app that controls my smart mattress>: “wanna know when you’re gonna die?”

[ continue ] [ cancel ]

[Internet of Shit @internetofshit]

@lasombra_br Most smart tvs harass you in other annoying ways if you don’t but i mean ya

[Internet of Shit @internetofshit]

lg tvs just literally wiretapping everything you say around them

just make a goddamn tv without internet i can use in peace you cowards https://t.co/Wxai4uMUqa

[Internet of Shit @internetofshit]

LG is weaseling so hard about this

“Automatic content recognition (ACR) is an opt-in feature according to LG”
you mean the feature that you go out of your way to auto-enable and trick people into turning on uh huh

“LG TVs process voice data only when the voice button on the remote control is pressed and held”
Ok but you DO store it before that then

“or when a wake word such as 'Hi LG' is recognized after [it is activated]”
LG software basically tricks you into turning this on

“the TVs do not collect or record ambient conversations”
so why are there logs of conversations near the tv stored on their hardware then

total garbage. don’t let lg tvs on the internet.

[Internet of Shit @internetofshit]

1) PROVE IT LG
2) want to get goodwill back? Let me turn off all the smart shit. All of it. Give us a basic mode.

https://t.co/hPeoSVpkpP

[Internet of Shit @internetofshit]

ffs now the sky has ads too https://t.co/kSIzcS75XM

[Wes Bos @wesbos]

we got toothbrush DRM before GTA6

[austin petersmith @awwstn]

6yo realized we always order groceries on sundays and snuck this into our whole foods cart this morning

[Internet of Shit @internetofshit]

great day for all the people with teeth kink when the mouth camera gets hacked

[Vaibhav Sisinty @VaibhavSisinty]

Dyson trained an AI on 470,000 dental images and put it inside a toothbrush. With a camera. That flosses for you. In real time.

It's called the CameraJet for $499. Launched today.

A 100,000-pixel macro lens sits inside the brush head. It takes 28 images per second while you brush. The AI detects gaps between your teeth and within 100 milliseconds fires a precision jet of mouthrinse directly into the gap.

It's computer vision doing your flossing. While you brush. Automatically.

Only Dyson would look at a toothbrush and think it needs a camera, a machine learning model, and a jet engine.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Bought a new Dyson fan, set it up connected to the Wifi, and then it suddenly turned off for minutes, unable to turn back on.

Turns out, it was spontaneously updating itself.

This is not how a household appliance should update, I’m sorry… why do we accept such sloppiness?

[Internet of Shit @internetofshit]

use this one WEIRD trick to make your customers never purchase your car again

[James Walker @jwalkermobile]

Check this out, today when you start your BMW, you see an advert for #spiderman #brandnewday

[Internet of Shit @internetofshit]

if I saw an ad in my car software i think id just drive into the sea

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

seems crazy.

The movie Spider-Man: Brand New Day paid BMW to take over the display of every BMW made after 2020.

When you start a BMW, it shows you an ad for Spider Man. Really cheapens BMW imo.

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

My toddler was stuck in his room waiting for the green light to turn on because Hatch was down

[Internet of Shit @internetofshit]

@Aqas__ The bad news is that all the other tv brands do this too. I had a Samsung tv shove an ad in the VOLUME slider

[Internet of Shit @internetofshit]

recently got an lg g5 and the best decision I made was to not allow it to ever touch the internet

[Tom Warren @tomwarren]

honestly, fuck LG for adding these notifications at startup on their TVs. I had every option for promotions disabled in the system settings, but they added new ones through the built in apps. I’ll never ever own anything LG ever again.

[Internet of Shit @internetofshit]

if you have an lg tv that IS on the internet they literally slather the menus with ad slop

…. The good news is Pihole / NextDNS work very well for blocking that 🙇‍♀️