Samsung bans smart TV apps that turn user connections into proxies
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Samsung is banning smart TV apps that can route strangers’ web traffic through users’ home internet connections after researchers found residential proxy software embedded in games available through its app store. One affected Pac-Man title had even been promoted in Samsung’s “Editor’s Choice” section. The findings were published on August 3 by Harrison Sand, a …
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