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Hackers take control of robot vacuums in multiple US cities and abuse owners (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/privacy

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Camera makes some amount of sense. Can be used to keep it from running over wires, or getting caught up in something like a loose curtain. Stuff that would be difficult to handle with non-visual sensors.

Microphone? Oh hell no. No purpose.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Ah, yeah that makes sense. Brainfart on my part.

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