Hackers take control of robot vacuums in multiple US cities and abuse owners
www.abc.net.au
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.
  • @[email protected]English
    10•3 months ago

    What did you expect from “The Internet of Things”?

    Also, now I’m just imagining the vacuums gaining sentience and actually becoming racist.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•3 months ago

      But racist against like really specific ethnicities and peoples. Like it goes off on a rant about the Jutes and Paraguayans for seemingly no reason.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•3 months ago

      Fortunately they don’t know how to open doors, so they’re not organizing together in public (yet)