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Hackers take control of robot vacuums in multiple US cities and abuse owners (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 1 week ago by unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone to c/worldnews@aussie.zone

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

......aaaaand this is why I shoot anything with a camera or wifi enabled that doesn't explicitly need it.

[–] dai@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Valetudo exists for local only operation of robot vacuums. Not for the point and click among our modern society, but if someone was paranoid enough they'd probably make it happen.

Sorry if that sounds like a jab, not intended 😅

Many "smart" devices can be modified, blocked or just not connected in the first place. I prefer to waste hours of my life figuring out extravagant ways to break these devices, only sometimes enabling local only functions.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 6 hours ago

Oh i have an entire fake wifi network for devices that demand it.

[–] unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Camera makes sense for mapping. But that could surely be done on a raspberry pi

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 6 days ago

I have an 880 that works just fine - no camera, no wifi. Comes with a remote and when it bumps into something with its soft rubber bumpers it adjusts its trajectory and keeps going