Comment on Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline

• spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Since I haven’t pulled it apart or tried to decrypt the ssl traffic so I have no idea whether it has “a microphone or something.” That’s the point.

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  • everett@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Keeping it offline some of the time isn’t effective against passive data collection unless you’re willing to take the inconvenient step of factory-resetting it each time you’re about to use it. Anything it collects it can just hold onto until it next gets the chance to upload.

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    • FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      SmartTVs will hold onto your data as long as they have storage, even through a factory reset. So if you sell it and the next person hooks it up to the Internet then the data is uploaded.

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      • everett@lemmy.ml ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I know it can be done, so it wouldn’t shock me at all to find out that it does happen, but do you know of any manufacturers who have been proven to do this?

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  • muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    SSL bold of you to assume that

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