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Hackers made robot vacuums randomly yell racial slurs


Hackers are making robot vacuums randomly yell racial slurs. The attackers also got full control of the units.

This allowed the attackers to not only control the robovacs, but use their speakers to hurl racial slurs and abusive comments at anyone nearby. He told ABC that he was watching TV when the robot started making weird noises, like “a broken-up radio signal or something.” Through the app, Swenson could tell that a stranger was accessing the live camera feed and the remote control feature. According to Gizmodo, the company has developed a patch to eliminate the aforementioned security flaw that’ll roll out sometime in November.

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