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Robot vacuums yell obscenities at owners after hackers take control

Ambiguously sentient and misbehaving IoS devices galore

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Oct 11, 2024
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Your Ecovacs Deebot X2 may have a new personality
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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