Blaze (he/him)@piefed.zip to Privacy@programming.devEnglish · 2 months agoManufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offlinewww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square20linkfedilinkarrow-up1258arrow-down11file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldhackernews@lemmy.bestiver.setechnology@lemmy.zip
arrow-up1257arrow-down1external-linkManufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offlinewww.tomshardware.comBlaze (he/him)@piefed.zip to Privacy@programming.devEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square20linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldhackernews@lemmy.bestiver.setechnology@lemmy.zip
An engineer discovered that the manufacturer can remotely brick his smart vacuum for not collecting data.
minus-squareJack@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up23·2 months ago“we didn’t do it because it was easy, but because we though it would be easy”
minus-squareSeductiveTortoise@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months agoAnd then we got angry because it didn’t work and worked on it until 3am.
“we didn’t do it because it was easy, but because we though it would be easy”
And then we got angry because it didn’t work and worked on it until 3am.