Smart TVs Are Now Nodes in the AI-Scraping Economy, Security Researchers Find
Include Security / Hacker News·medium signal
Include Security published research showing consumer smart TVs are being recruited as residential-proxy nodes feeding the AI web-scraping economy, drawing 111 points on HN. The post details how living-room devices route scraping traffic to evade bot detection, expanding the attack surface for both data harvesting and abuse. It adds device-level evidence to the Cloudflare finding that bot traffic now exceeds human traffic online.