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Flaki

This reminded me of the screenshot I took the other day and forgot to post
flaki.social/@flaki/1150161393

Important context: Anker's power stations can be accessed via Bluetooth & their app. They really want you, though, to create a cloud account, to the point that they nag you every time you start up the app, but you can skip it. The one thing you *need* to have a cloud account for is connecting your power station to wifi: and while they will tell you you have a pending firmware update, you can only install it by connecting to wifi (which requires linking to a cloud account).

With that context now you can really see the beauty here: please install this latest firmware update that fixes important security issues arising when connecting your fucking SOLAR POWER BANK to the cloud by... being forced to connect said overgrown phone charger to the internet.

Fuckin A+, brilliant, no notes. :ratdrum:

#enshittification#internetOfThings
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ilias :thepiratebay:

internet of shit at its finest

this morning Samsung Smart Hub servers went down today due to outage, and as a result Smart TVs became pretty much useless

worse, company didn't issue any official statement, and users were scrambling to do unnecessary tweaks

at this point there should be a law that forbids having internet in household appliances. you don't need internet in a fucking oven, washing machine or TV

#IoT#InternetOfThings#InternetOfShit
Miguel Afonso Caetano

"The FBI listed some indicators of compromise (IoCs) in the PSA for consumers to tell if they were impacted. But the average person isn’t running network detection infrastructure in their homes, and cannot hope to understand what IoCs can be used to determine if their devices generate “unexplained or suspicious Internet traffic.” Here, we will attempt to help give more comprehensive background information about these IoCs. If you find any of these on devices you own, then we encourage you to follow through by contacting the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) at www.ic3.gov.

The FBI lists these IoC:

- The presence of suspicious marketplaces where apps are downloaded.

- Requiring Google Play Protect settings to be disabled.

- Generic TV streaming devices advertised as unlocked or capable of accessing free content.

- IoT devices advertised from unrecognizable brands.

- Android devices that are not Play Protect certified.

- Unexplained or suspicious Internet traffic.

The following adds context to above, as well as some added IoCs we have seen from our research."

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/fbi-

#CyberSecurity#Privacy#IoT
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