Comment on Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums

bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  WRONG.

  That thing is in your wifi, it probabl has bluetooth too.

  It knows the pattern of other devices in your wifi comming and going. It could even grab metadate of every traffic in your wifi. It probably has a temperature sensor (knows when you open your windows). It probably has a movement sensor hence beeing able to grab vibration data…like do you walk around, when, how much, more than one person.

  It could also act as part of a DDoS attack or be used as a domestic ip proxy.

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  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It could even grab metadate of every traffic in your wifi

    Nah it’s on a separate vlan

    It probably has a temperature sensor (knows when you open your windows). It probably has a movement sensor hence beeing able to grab vibration data…like do you walk around, when, how much, more than one person.

    To what end?

    It could also act as part of a DDoS attack or be used as a domestic ip proxy.

    Maybe. Being a major brand I’m sure some network nerds would notice these kind of packets at some point. But that’s probably the most realistic.

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• stoly@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I specifically got one with no WiFi to avoid any issues like this.

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