I remember about news of some Israeli intelligence operatives who jogged around their HQ only to be outed by their tracks on Strava.
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I remember army officers and cia folks, specifically. It wouldn't surprise me that israel got caught as well.
Shit I’m scared of my home speakers echo locating my furniture and the size of my domicile
In case anyone's interested, there's actually open-source self-hosted robot vacuum firmware for select models
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If you have a robot vacuum, and the robot vacuum makes a persistent map (as opposed to the older "dumber" models that just bounce around randomly), they all send that map back to some remote server. In fact, most of those robots won't even enable the mapping feature unless they're connected to the Internet (which is absolute bullshit considering most of those robots generate, process, and store that map locally, so there's literally no reason to send it off somewhere).
So your options are to just use the robot without ever connecting it to the Internet and be happy with the reduced featureset, root the robot and install Valetudo on it, or just vacuum manually. But until manufacturers are forced to let us actually own the smart devices they sell is, under no circumstances should you ever let one touch the Internet.
Such a boring dystopia :/
I don't understand why these devices need an internet connection?
To upload a map of your home duh
Some of these connect to a smartphone App through Wi-Fi. Connecting to internet and uploading stuff are not shown to the owner but might happen in the background.
We need bluetooth devices back, there's no reason for 99.999999% of devices to have your network password.
Exactly. Local connection. Why the fuck does it need access to some server somewhere? I am sorry... but if they have updates for their shit available they need different ways of making it available.
Also why the fuck does the company need audio recordings from your home? That is literally spy shit. And why does it need the layout? Even if they were doing it purely to improve their products and make them be able to work around confusing layouts and obstacles then that shit needs your full knowledge and consent... and you can withdraw consent at any time for any reason.
I am too tired to rant further.
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Because people are not taught the basics of Lan network vs Wan network and corporations love to exploit this.
During the aws outage i heard multiple people be upset with their isp because “the wifi is broken”
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I mean, this has been known about for pretty much all smart vacuums.
But who the fuck is going to use the layout of your house for anything?
The secret police
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"secret". Sweet summer child, you've been mapped down to your quarks for decades, and building plans have been at Town Hall since... Louis XIV?
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