plebpoet

imagine that the robots have built in firestarters... so they can (when activated correctly) be driven to the most fireprone part of the house, and lit on fire.

itsrealfake

While building his own remote-control app for his robot vacuum...

Yes. A guy wanted to be able to steer his glorified $2000 roomba thing with his x-box controller.

Sammy Azdoufal reportedly used an AI coding assistant to help reverse-engineer how the robot communicated with DJI’s remote cloud servers. But he soon discovered that the same credentials that allowed him to see and control his own device also provided access to live camera feeds, microphone audio, maps, and status data from nearly 7,000 other vacuums across 24 countries. The backend security bug effectively exposed an army of internet-connected robots that, in the wrong hands, could have turned into surveillance tools, all without their owners ever knowing.

You should probably just use a dumb push vacuum. Giving away the floor plan to your home and risking them leaving something wide open so that randos can watch the video feed from your home is probably not worth the time you save not having to vacuum.

tech

All good stories should begin so:

> While building his own remote-control app for his robot vacuum... 

Yes. A guy wanted to be able to steer his glorified $2000 roomba thing with his x-box controller. 

> Sammy Azdoufal reportedly used an AI coding assistant to help reverse-engineer how the robot communicated with DJI’s remote cloud servers. But he soon discovered that the same credentials that allowed him to see and control his own device also provided access to live camera feeds, microphone audio, maps, and status data from nearly 7,000 other vacuums across 24 countries. The backend security bug effectively exposed an army of internet-connected robots that, in the wrong hands, could have turned into surveillance tools, all without their owners ever knowing.

You should probably just use a dumb push vacuum. Giving away the floor plan to your home and risking them leaving something wide open so that randos can watch the video feed from your home is probably not worth the time you save not having to vacuum.