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Spoiler Alert: Your TV Will Be Hacked
snydeq writes "With rising popularity of Internet-enabled TVs, the usual array of attacks and exploits will soon be coming to a screen near you. 'Will Internet TVs will be hacked as successfully as previous generations of digital devices? Of course they will. Nothing in a computer built into a TV makes it less attackable than a PC. ... Can we make Internet TVs more secure than regular computers? Yes. Will we? Probably not. We never do the right things proactively. Instead, we as a global society appear inclined to accept half-baked security solutions that are more like Band-Aids than real protection.'"
"Above all that, beyond playing tricks and crashing my browser, I'd be interested to know what incentive they would have to do that?"
Long-term botnet. Good for spamming, ad-fraud, DDoSing, that sort of thing.