Robot vacuums yell obscenities at owners after hackers take control
Ambiguously sentient and misbehaving IoS devices galore
Your Ecovacs Deebot X2 may have a new personality
Hacked robot vacuum machines began spouting obscenities and slurs this week after an exploit allowed hackers to take remote control of them.
Through the Ecovacs app, he saw that a stranger was accessing its live camera feed and remote control feature. Dismissing it as some kind of glitch, Mr Swenson reset …
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