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Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline (www.tomshardware.com)
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An engineer discovered that the manufacturer can remotely brick his smart vacuum for not collecting data.

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[–] Fontasia@feddit.nl 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Why didn't he just use DNS spoofing?

[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 26 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

"we didn't do it because it was easy, but because we though it would be easy"

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 9 points 2 weeks ago

And then we got angry because it didn't work and worked on it until 3am.

[–] bigboitricky@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I too, read art of war

[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is it from there, I got it from r/programmerHumor (equally as destiguished imo /s)

[–] tomiant@programming.dev 5 points 2 weeks ago

It is not.

[–] transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 weeks ago

Why do it the easy way, when you can do it the fun way?

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 9 points 2 weeks ago

To quote the inventor of the Steam Brick:

Because I was so preoccupied with whether or not I could that I didn't stop to think if I should.