Ecovacs 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.
  • Che Banana@beehaw.org
    3·
    8 hours ago

    Copied from another thread on the same topic:

    Yeah so we were visiting friends in Germany and the father was all proud to show us how he surveiled the (young adult) children and their friends with the vacuum camera while they were out.

    Needless to say that was super creepy and for sure we thought our room might be ‘bugged’ so we didn’t talk about it until we were (far, far) away.

    • ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
      12·
      12 hours ago

      Personally if I was the hacker I’d chase the people around with it shouting “EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE!” I think that would be tasteful

  • No1@aussie.zone
    6·
    12 hours ago

    SkyNet is coming. When it’s AI controlling the robots instead of hackers, watch out!

    To be serious though, I’ve got a robot vac that’s pretty dumb by today’s standards - no camera etc. It hasn’t had a firmware update for ages, so if it was hacked, I’m dubious the company would fix such an old model. The one benefit is that I think it’s so old and dumb, I think I can actually run it without connecting to a network. But I would lose app control and the ability to change any settings.