Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoafaik the lidar data is crunched locally, then sent to the remote server for easy consumption
when those vacuums are flashed with valetudo, they can still make the map with lidar without internet connection
Reginald_T_Biter@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Exactly. So it’s pure surreptitious data exfiltration. They only reason they send the data back is because they can, and there is value for them.