Posted on 10/11/2024 2:11:25 PM PDT by dynachrome
Robot vacuums in multiple US cities were hacked in the space of a few days, with the attacker physically controlling them and yelling obscenities through their onboard speakers.
The affected robots were all Chinese-made Ecovacs Deebot X2s — the exact model that the ABC was able to hack into as proof of a critical security flaw.
Minnesota lawyer Daniel Swenson was watching TV when his robot started to malfunction.
"It sounded like a broken-up radio signal or something," he told the ABC. "You could hear snippets of maybe a voice."
Through the Ecovacs app, he saw that a stranger was accessing its live camera feed and remote control feature.
(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...
that sucks...
I am not sure why a vacuum cleaner needs to be on the Internet. If you need software downloads of house map backups, you should be able to disconnect the live Internet feature once the task is done.
” Either he didn’t know how to override or the system was seized up from the damage like a locked up PC. “
Or maybe he was already dead.
RE: Or maybe he was already dead.
He was frantically trying to get the door to open and pleading for help.
Nancy Sinatra said he hadn’t mastered the many arrows and symbols so that may have played a role. But back seat doors can be childproof locked to keep them from trying to leave while the car is moving. Seemed to happen to his main door.
That’ll happen in Nov before voting starts.
“I am not sure why a vacuum cleaner needs to be on the Internet. If you need software downloads of house map backups, you should be able to disconnect the live Internet feature once the task is done.”
WiFi is used to communicate to the device from the app.
Now couple that with decoupled steering in the cyber truck and computerized hydraulic control of the braking system and they can take over the truck and the operator will just be along for the ride locked out of everything.
“He was frantically trying to get the door to open and pleading for help.”
Reports say he was killed instantly.
OTOH, the door may have been physically jammed from the collision. There is nothing electronic preventing the door from opening.
If my robo-vac started yelling racial slurs, I think I’d laugh my @$$ off.
“But back seat doors can be childproof locked to keep them from trying to leave while the car is moving. Seemed to happen to his main door.”
There is no mechanism in the front door to prevent the inside door handle from operating.
OTOH, rear doors with the childproof lock activated can still be opened from the outside.
I have a robo vacuum cleaner. I don’t have it hooked up to the Wi-fi.
Why is a vacuum cleaner connected to anything outside of itself?
I liked the Black and Decker Dust Buster! /S ROFLMAOASTD
Remember those movies and Ray Bradbury stories about robot houses that take over? And here I thought it was just science fiction...
“lol... actually that is something we did regularly as kids with prank phone calls!! man that was a gas!...”
AH - HA! I finally caught you calling many taxi cab companies to the neighbors’ houses and watching the chaos from your darkened room!
OR
Sending flowers to everyone in the neighborhood!
Yeah, it was YOU! Now you are going down, I tell ya! ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE9qHZb5CYE
Don’t think of yourself as a victim. Just suck it up.
that all came to a screeching hault with the outing of I think it was *69 or something like that where you hit it and you get straight back to the person who just called...
and... ummmm... I was a tad bit more devient than ordering flowers!! lol
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