Hacked Robot Vacuums Across the U.S. Started Yelling Slurs
Hacked Robot Vacuums Across the U.S. Started Yelling Slurs
"It could have been worse," one owner incredibly concluded.
Perhaps the best part of this anecdote was Swenson’s incredulous conclusion that the situation “could have been worse.” But he’s right that it was nice of the hacker to let him know his vacuum was hacked instead of spying on him indefinitely.
The most common issue people have with so-called “smart” home devices is that they often require a software subscription to access core functionality, and if the manufacturer goes under or stops supporting the device, it simply becomes a paperweight.
Friendly reminder that the S in IoT stands for security
what do you mean? I gave it my ID number, now it's called ID IoT and it's totally safe
GOOD point
why does it need to have audio capabilities
So it can yell slurs, duh
To speak Polish.
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for the slurs, of course
why would you ever let a thing with a camera on it roam around your house connected to the wider internet? thats lan only shit
My grandparents just got cop cameras (ring) and I don't want to go to their house anymore
the only tiny saving grace of those pieces of shit is that they got rubes to put up battery powered cameras which are trivially easy to disable and often not active regardless due to a dead battery. I moved into a shared house with some. The batteries were charged like twice in 2 years and I put duct tape over the camera on the one facing the street
You ever see a post title that gets you to check if it was submitted to c/fakenews? Yeah...
From this to hacking the internet archive, hackers are not good anymore.
Anonymous is just a bunch of feds
The enshittification of everything under capitalism.
Hackers fit pretty neatly into the DnD alignment chart. Lawful vs chaotic is red/blue types vs black hat hackers. Good vs evil is essentially just left-wing vs right wing politics.
Chan culture is disappointing. Cause there are so many funnier bits than just yelling slurs
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For me, good* Chan culture was 2003-2009. But I was a teen for a lot of that. And I’m old now.
*/b/ was never good
(I only posted on /b/)
Hacking into a robot vacuum cleaner and trying to get whoever you can find to feed it snacks.
People think I'm weird for rejecting all smarthome tech. No I do not want that Alexa. No I don't want a camera system connected to the Internet.
But it seems so clear to me it's a bad idea... Like the line is funny but also not wrong. Yelling slurs is honestly barely on the list of the worst things someone with access to a house full of iot devices could do.
yeah and its always the dumbest shit that's the most egregious. This vacuum cleaner had a CAMERA and INTERCOM lmao
Or like smart plugs could so easily be a fire hazard but as uber-cheap consumer devices are some of the worst for design and security
Features your vacuum definitely needed...
I just vacuum my house using a normal vacuum cleaner that'd like 25 years old. It blasts straight into a kitchen bag and is also a wet vac if you remove or change the bag. It takes like maybe an hour tops to vacuum a pretty bug house, it takes me like 15 minutes for my apartment. I consider a vacuum cleaner itself to be a bit of a luxury cause until pretty recently I just used a broom. A robot doing it is still weird and silly to me, let alone one that can yell slurs.
The more premium models just sense a black person and follows them around saying "are you sure you're in the right house? I'm going to need some proof that you live here. I know everyone in this neighborhood and I've never seen you around before"
Mullen protocol initiated
My only “IoT” device is a Roomba, not whatever brand this was but it’s not like the Roomba brand is somehow immune to this kind of thing.
I love this machine, having 2 cats and a very furry dog it’s a life changer. A vacuum that runs every day on its own with me just having to empty the bin? Fucking amazing. Can’t recommend it enough.
I wish so badly that it wasn’t connected to the internet. Why do you need that? Can’t we just have some buttons to set a schedule? Did I really need an app?
Robot vacuums that have no internet connection do exist, but they’re worse. Like, they will literally just do a worse job of vacuuming your floor. The dumb ones just bump around randomly until it notices there’s no more dirt. The internet connected ones map the room and can put straight lines on the floor and make sure they don’t miss spots.
But they don’t actually need the internet for any of that aside from starting it. If the internet goes down it keeps the same schedule and map. Which means they could do all of it with no reason to connect to the internet.
Does it use some kind of cloud service to get the map initially? It's a lot harder to commercialize a solution without the IoT buzzwords and management loves that garbage sadly. But it might be nontrivial to take the existing product and make it work seamlessly without ever connecting to that cloud service.
so just set it up on a hotspot with a throwaway name and then never let it go online again
Damn imagine waking up in a delirious state to your vacuum shouting gamer words at you like you woke up in a Counterstrike lobby
I hate that this is a very funny thing to have been done
Have them read some bad fanfics out loud instead. Slurs is the least funny and most G#mer thing they could've done smdh
still very funny tho
The
futurepresent continues to suck ass in new and unexpectedly shitty but kind of banal ways
too bad it wasn't based commies who hacked them, and made them start reading the communist manifesto out loud. that would be amazing. imagine.
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I learnt about roomba-jacking from Boonta Vista.
Hell of an episode to kick off an 8 hour drive with, that's for sure
the future america deserves
Tbf it stepped on a Lego.
Once again
proving to be the greatest argument for legalizing abortion. They have nothing of value to bring to this world.It's been done better https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mvz3LRK263E&pp=ygUTcm9vbWJhIHRoYXQgc2NyZWFtcw%3D%3D
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: