> Even people without TV streaming boxes can find their smart TVs enrolled in residential proxy networks, just by installing one of thousands of apps available for download on Samsung and LG smart TVs. In a report released last month, the proxy tracking company Spur found 42 percent of apps available for download via the webOS operating system on LG smart TVs include SDKs that turn one’s television into an always-on residential proxy node. More than a quarter of the apps made for Samsung’s Tizen operating system had similar residential proxy components, Spur found.

Most interesting part of the article for me. I wonder if people with a streaming box run into tor-exit-node type problems.

    The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked
    with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated
    with NetNut, a sprawling residential proxy service operated by
    the publicly-traded Israeli company 
    Alarum Technologies [NASDAQ: ALAR].

> They seized the wrong domain. Netnut is still up and running

> The domain FBI seized: https://netnut.com

> The real domain https://netnut.io

The backend infrastructure, for similar reasons, is probably still operational, even if it might have taken a hit.

This will cause a disruption to all sorts of intelligence operations. The FBI didn’t get the memo apparently.