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

submitted 1 month ago by zero_gravitas@aussie.zone to c/andfinally

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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.

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[–] KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

At this point I use Home Assistant for everything IoT and won't buy any product I can't use LAN-only through HA.

The unfortunate exception to this rule is TVs. You can't even buy a "dumb" TV anymore. I put up with LGs after disabling every setting and data agreement I can for privacy's sake, but none of them are good.