Ecovacs 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.

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.

  • Prison Mike@links.hackliberty.org
    4·
    3 months ago

    I’m a huge fan of IoT, but requiring all this stuff to access internet is just so wild to me. It’s 2024, we all have a LAN* at this point (even though non-tech people think WiFi == internet).

    I stupidly bought iRobot products and the app is such a glitchfest, it wants to talk to AWS’ shithole us-east-1 to do anything and of course the app is always telling me about “great deals” on newer products.

    * Careful when using an ISP-supplied router though, now your ISP wants access to your LAN for “totally innocent” reasons

    • KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz
      3·
      3 months 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.

    • GreatAlbatross@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      My plan is to buy something Valetudo compatible, and have it all run in network.

      I try really hard to stick to the policy of “if it needs internet access to operate, I won’t install it on the house”