#ilifea11 — Public Fediverse posts
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Smart Vacuums apparently have backdoors so the manufacturer can shut it down if you don't play ball. They also use geomapping tools to map out your home and report back to manufacturer. Utter Madness.
The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me
https://codetiger.github.io/blog/the-day-my-smart-vacuum-turned-against-me/
#AI #IOT #SmartThings #China #GoogleCartographer #Privacy #Security #iLifeA11 #surveillance #Technology
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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 & Python scripts to run offline-Tom's Hardware
An engineer got curious about how his #iLifeA11 #SmartVacuum worked & #monitored the network traffic coming from the device. That’s when he noticed it was constantly sending logs & #telemetry data to the manufacturer — something he hadn't consented to.
#privacy #surveillance