| ▲ | bronco21016 7 hours ago |
| Gotta have your SuperBox set up to watch 24 hr cable news working late into the night. |
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| ▲ | Tangurena2 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| For those who don't know what this is, here's a decent podcast about it: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/172/ There's a transcript if you want to read, not listen. At the start, you'll be "hey! I gotta get me one!" and later you'll be like "burn it with fire!" |
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| ▲ | mryijum 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Interesting! According to this, a lot more going on beyond the residential proxy element, which was the only bit I had considered (or heard about). I wish there was an accompanying article with some more specifics. | | |
| ▲ | thenthenthen 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I aso would like a technical deepdive, the transcript comes out as not very well informed and borderline conspiratorial. “ Most of the infected devices were manufactured in China. ” uh… most devices are manufactured in China period. Very strange article/podcast. |
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| ▲ | JTbane 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I have seen these at mall kiosks advertising "free cable", and today I learned they are proxying from your home network. |
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| ▲ | drnick1 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Absolutely, and this is why I refuse to run connected devices on my network that do run software I can reasonably trust. This is also why every computer, phone or appliance I own runs Linux. This includes my TV box, which I recently migrated to an x86 port of Android with Claude's help. | |
| ▲ | cowlevel 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | That is the least bad thing they could do btw. Unless your internet is data restricted, go for it if you want free cable. If questioned by your ISP (extremely unlikely but theoretically possible) pretend you have no idea what they're talking about. Firewall it from your local network if you want to - it'll still work - they're not after that. |
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| ▲ | thehodge 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| That was the first thing I thought of! |
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| ▲ | ethagnawl 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| A friend in Texas claims they recently bought one at Wal-Mart. I don't know anything about how these work but that can't be true ... right? |
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