Robot vacuums in multiple US cities were hacked in the space of a few days, with the attacker physically controlling them and yelling obscenities through their onboard speakers.
Robot vacuums in multiple US cities were hacked in the space of a few days, with the attacker physically controlling them and yelling obscenities through their onboard speakers.
I’m a huge fan of IoT, but requiring all this stuff to access internet is just so wild to me. It’s 2024, we all have a LAN* at this point (even though non-tech people think WiFi == internet).
I stupidly bought iRobot products and the app is such a glitchfest, it wants to talk to AWS’ shithole
us-east-1to do anything and of course the app is always telling me about “great deals” on newer products.* Careful when using an ISP-supplied router though, now your ISP wants access to your LAN for “totally innocent” reasons
My plan is to buy something Valetudo compatible, and have it all run in network.
I try really hard to stick to the policy of “if it needs internet access to operate, I won’t install it on the house”
At this point I use Home Assistant for everything IoT and won’t buy any product I can’t use LAN-only through HA.
The unfortunate exception to this rule is TVs. You can’t even buy a “dumb” TV anymore. I put up with LGs after disabling every setting and data agreement I can for privacy’s sake, but none of them are good.