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Manufacturer 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 offline (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 3 months ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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An engineer got curious about how his iLife A11 smart vacuum worked and monitored the network traffic coming from the device. That’s when he noticed it was constantly sending logs and telemetry data to the manufacturer — something he hadn't consented to. The user, Harishankar, decided to block the telemetry servers' IP addresses on his network, while keeping the firmware and OTA servers open. While his smart gadget worked for a while, it just refused to turn on soon after. After a lengthy investigation, he discovered that a remote kill command had been issued to his device.

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[–] tabular@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Libre alternative?

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[–] notreallyhere@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

while this is good, we really don't need all these smart devices in the first place

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[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 4 points 3 months ago

Same story with this guy (in french)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGMRUiBOFj0

Highly recommend watching his stuff, might be very technical but also super methodical

[–] SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Reject bottom feeder, Embrace Rigid vacuum.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, mine has it. I have to go into the app once a week and manually delete it.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Smart vaccuum that needs an app to use. Are we really this stupid, everyone?

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hello friend.

This seems like a good time to inform you that you have the option to communicate in such a way that you don't make yourself look like an asshole.

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