• @[email protected]
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    399 hours ago

    On May 24, the same day that Mr Swenson’s device was hacked, a Deebot X2 went rogue, and chased its owner’s dog around their Los Angeles home.

    The robot was being steered from afar, with abusive comments coming through the speakers.

    Late at night, an Ecovacs robot in El Paso started spewing racial slurs at its owner until he unplugged it.

    The future is stupid.

    • @Dasus
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      97 hours ago

      These hackers are stupid.

      I dint understand how you have the intelligence and patience to learn enough to hack one of these, but the go with some unoriginal racist bullshit.

      Could’ve actually made it fun and original.

      • @actually
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        22 hours ago

        I’ve no idea how they hacked. But most likely the vulnerability was a mistake the vacuum cleaner manufacturer did, after using second tier software to “save costs”. And they probably skimped on paying the coders, if any

        Most likely someone more sophisticated found the exploit, tried to get a bug bounty , was declined by the penny pinching company, and they posted to a place people like your comment inhabit.

        If I’m right, this is only the start of problems with this cleaner, because it will happen over and over?

      • @NoRodent
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        117 hours ago

        “Come with me if you want to live”