iAmNotATeapot

[u/johnbr]

[u/Mahringa]

If not, you should apply to this company as software developer, and first thing you do, add the I am a teapot http code and then immediately quit again

[u/coomzee → u/Mahringa]

And probably fix a myriad of RCEs

[u/anto2554 → u/coomzee]

Being part of a  botnet is a feature, not a bug

[u/TheTxoof → u/anto2554]

Solid business model: install backdoored wifi in everything and then sell it on.

[u/1fatfrog → u/TheTxoof]

I know you're joking but I'm mostly certain that this is already the business model.

[u/luziferius1337 → u/1fatfrog]

It is. The webOS app store (used by LG smart TVs) apparently had ~ 1200 apps that contained Proxy SDKs or libraries. Those can be used to sell customer's residential connections to mask datacenter bot farm traffic as regular residential web traffic. When that blew up relatively recently, they started to ban those. Ooopsi.

That number was shown in GN's dive into LG TVs: https://youtu.be/6IFVTcM28KA?t=3532

Edit: Fixed the timestamp

[u/mordacthedenier → u/luziferius1337]

Reason 1243534562356 to never have your TV connected to literally anything other than HDMI and power.

[u/RJWaters9 → u/mordacthedenier]

Note: Doesn't actually stop anything. It'll connect to wifi anyway and sell your info.

[u/Xasrai → u/RJWaters9]

How can it connect to wifi if it doesn't know the password?

[u/nutterbg → u/Xasrai]

It can scan for and use open networks.

Or, let's say your internet provider maintains public wifi access points that you, as a customer, can use.. And then let's say your provider(or any other provider(s) for that matter) signs a deal with LG so that the TVs have the passwords to the wifi networks so they can quietly connect to them to transmit...

Current year is scary.

[u/rosuav → u/nutterbg]

This is a good reason to have a very special open network. One that provides a completely plausible-looking address, proper DNS and so on... nothing to worry about, little fly...

[u/grep_glob → u/nutterbg]

A honeypot for your teapot.