Robot vacuum cleaners hacked to spy on, insult owners
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Robot vacuum cleaners hacked to spy on, insult owners
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Re: Robot vacuum cleaners hacked to spy on, insult owners
#2Maybe the fact it shows how these devices can spy might educate people on what IoT's are doing all day every day in their homes and around their kids. Would this be considered hactivism?
I'm half curious if they got some of the idea from Michael Reeves [1].
[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvz3LRK263E [video][11 mins][language, wear headphones maybe]
Re: Robot vacuum cleaners hacked to spy on, insult owners
#3My Roborock has a three button combination you have to press on the bot to enable remote viewing. I suppose once you do that all bets are off. But at least it requires access to the hardware and is off by default. Better if you could configure it to disable again after each use or periodically.
I'd really want this feature to keep an eye on my pets if I work away from home again. I could see buying a bot just for that.
Re: Robot vacuum cleaners hacked to spy on, insult owners
#4Related Insecure Deebot robot vacuums collect photos and audio to train AI (82 points, 15 days ago, 37 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41753983
Re: Robot vacuum cleaners hacked to spy on, insult owners
#5These darn things don't need to be "cloud enabled", or even wifi. Please make them Bluetooth, etc only.
These dopey use cases of needing to trigger a cleaning while miles away have always seemed like a stretch.
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#6My Roborock has a three button combination you have to press on the bot to enable remote viewing. I suppose once you do that all bets are off. But at least it requires access to the hardware and is off by default. Better if you could configure it to disable again after each use or periodically. I'd really want this feature to keep an eye on my pets if I work away from home again. I could see buying a bot just for tha…
How do you know those buttons go to hardwired switches rather than being controlled by software that could be remotely hacked?
Re: Robot vacuum cleaners hacked to spy on, insult owners
#7God bless these teenage degenerates and their endlessly creative fuckery. They bring more color to the world.
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#8God bless these teenage degenerates and their endlessly creative fuckery. They bring more color to the world.
... for invading someone's privacy and screaming racist obscenities in their home? i vehemently disagree.
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#9My Roborock has a three button combination you have to press on the bot to enable remote viewing. I suppose once you do that all bets are off. But at least it requires access to the hardware and is off by default. Better if you could configure it to disable again after each use or periodically. I'd really want this feature to keep an eye on my pets if I work away from home again. I could see buying a bot just for tha…
How do you know those buttons go to hardwired switches rather than being controlled by software that could be remotely hacked?
My thought exactly.
Re: Robot vacuum cleaners hacked to spy on, insult owners
#10These darn things don't need to be "cloud enabled", or even wifi. Please make them Bluetooth, etc only. These dopey use cases of needing to trigger a cleaning while miles away have always seemed like a stretch.
Right. But the actual use case of being able to sell your home's floorplan and general cleaning schedule/behaviors/etc to advertisers requires cloud functionality, so you need some fig leaf to cover up the requirement...
I agree, local only would be great. But that's not aligned with the "sell a product once, sell the data collected forever!" model that most modern consumer tech products operate on.