Deebster

@Deebster@infosec.pub · Joined ⁨Oct⁩ ⁨2023⁩

Nowadays my main account, but other @Deebsters are available.

Replying to @⁨inari@piefed.zip⁩

The one thing he didn’t plan for was that auto-uploading the files this way required a paid account.

“There was really only one reasonable solution: my hamster now has Strava Premium,” de Buck said.

Love the commitment to the bit. I was unsurprised to learn that the owner is a physicist and an injured runner meaning he has both the time and motivation to geek out on data and live vicariously.

Replying to @⁨magnolia_mayhem@lemmy.world⁩

Lots of both legal and illegal devices in people’s homes surreptitiously use their connection to do that already. E.g. Bright Data sells proxy access with 400M+ residental IPs via its SDK embedded in lots of smart TVs. AI scrapers love this one weird trick!

Include Security Research BlogThe Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy - Include Security Research BlogIn this post we look under the hood of BrightData's SDK and how it turns ordinary consumer TVs into exit nodes of an enormous commercial, residential proxy network leveraged by the AI industry to scrape web data and train language learning models.