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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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[–] frunch@lemmy.world 46 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

It doesn't appear that anything is being done about this. I imagine there are many more devices pulling similar shit (sending personal data they collect back to their data centers without consent)... It just bothers me that there's doesn't seem to be any pushback whatsoever in cases like this. Not that i need or use a robot vac but I'm sure this type of data collection is hardly limited to them

[–] tomiant@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's a tidal wave. It's very hard to stop. The wave consists of about a trillion variables all pointing in the wrong direction.

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