Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums

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• AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  He didn’t stumble on a bug, he landed in their backend home surveillance architecture. This wasn’t a mistake, this was a whistle being blown and the article missed it.

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• Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Just go to the house of any cyber security worker, or any sysadmin / IT worker and tell me how many internet connected smart devices you find.

  The “S” in IoT stands for Security.

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  • curbstickle@anarchist.nexus ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    internet connected

    The key part.

    My robovac is great, but it doesnt see the internet. And its running valetudo, of course.

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  • yaroto98@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have a few! They’re, just not, you know, allowed to connect to the internet…

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  • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You either don’t find any or you find them connected to a vlan without internet access

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  • MBech@feddit.dk ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My vacuum is unfortunately connected to the internet. It doesn’t seem to have a clue what my house looks like though. It keeps fucking up the map, rotating it and then tries to drive through walls to get to non excisting rooms.

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• bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is why mine has no camera

  Go ham. Most data you’re getting out of me is my floor layout lmao.

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  • stoly@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• Gork@sopuli.xyz ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Don’t you just hate it when that happens to you?

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  • Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Luckily, it didn’t happen to me.

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• Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Oh no! Not again!”

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