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now that you put it like that, I'm surprised the selection of "smart" TVs, cable boxes, provider wifi boxes, etc are not doing that already.


Do we know that they don't? A dedicated ASIC would probably be spotted by some random person doing a teardown. But a DSP chip doubling as crypto miner when not in use, that could easily escape post-purchase hardware inspection.

(Might be easier to discover it on the design/procurement/supply chain side. Perhaps stock players would find out when investigating their investments. A high-profile brand putting crypto miners on consumer hardware is newsworthy, and news move stocks, so there's incentive to leak the story.)




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