Samsung and LG vow to remove 'botnet' apps from their smart TV app stores that turned sets into an AI scraping machines — but the shocking claim that over 40% of webOS apps had botnet code raises the question of how things ever got this bad
THE SO WHAT
Consumer devices are now quietly part of the AI infra story—millions of TVs conscripted into scraping botnets means your app store and SDK policies are effectively security and data-center policy. If you ship on connected hardware, treat third-party app review, telemetry, and kill-switch capability as core reliability infrastructure, not a compliance checkbox.
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