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Man Accidentally Gains Control of 7,000 Robot Vacuums https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/02/22/0510212/man-accidentally-gains-control-of-7000-robot-vacuums?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Man Accidentally Gains Control of 7,000 Robot Vacuums - Slashdot

A software engineer tried steering his robot vacuum with a videogame controller, reports Popular Science — but ended up with "a sneak peak into thousands of people's homes." While building his own remote-control app, Sammy Azdoufal reportedly used an AI coding assistant to help reverse-engin...

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The reason I make such an effort to run any iot devices only on the local network. The vacuum in particular took many weeks of tinkering before I finally had root access.
The cloud is not smart.

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/02/22/0510212/man-accidentally-gains-control-of-7000-robot-vacuums

Man Accidentally Gains Control of 7,000 Robot Vacuums - Slashdot

A software engineer tried steering his robot vacuum with a videogame controller, reports Popular Science — but ended up with "a sneak peak into thousands of people's homes." While building his own remote-control app, Sammy Azdoufal reportedly used an AI coding assistant to help reverse-engin...

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