"It could have been worse," one owner incredibly concluded.

“It could have been worse,” one owner incredibly concluded.

  • xapr [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    20·
    2 months ago

    Wait, this situation is way worse than what’s on the headline. These things (ecovac robot vaccums) have remotely accessible cameras? What in the Heebie Jeebus?

    He opened the vacuum’s app to find a stranger was accessing its live camera feed and remote control feature, but assumed it might be an error.

    • jlow (he/him)@beehaw.orgEnglish
      12·
      2 months ago

      Yeah, surely it’s an “error” and not yet another company not being able or caring to do shit all about basic security because they apparently don’t have to and no one cares 👍

    • Che Banana@beehaw.orgEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      Yeah so we were visiting friends in Germany and the father was all proud to show us how he surveiled the (young adult) children and their friends with the vacuum camera while they were out.

      Needless to say that was super creepy and for sure we thought our room might be ‘bugged’ so we didn’t talk about it until we were (far, far) away.

      • xapr [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        lol, holy hell… I am extremely against generalizing and stereotyping any group of people, particularly for things they couldn’t control (country of birth), but it did give me a chuckle that it would be Germans bragging about something like that. Sorry!

        That’s just wild, because I’m pretty sure it would be illegal in a lot of jurisdictions. Especially involving minors. Holy Moly.

        • Che Banana@beehaw.orgEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          TBF he was born and raised in East Germany and they’ve…got different values and outlooks.

          He also placed a mic pickup and speakers around his van so that everyone can hear what he says without him raising his voice…it was pretty off putting.

          We visited them about 10 years ago and he wasn’t this…odd.

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    151·
    2 months ago

    On one hand, that’s pretty funny. But why would you allow the thing on the internet? No experience with robot vacuums, but don’t you just throw in on the floor? Set and forget?

  • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    Unless and until companies are held truly accountable for releasing stuff with this bad of security baked in, we’re going to keep seeing this sort of story.

  • Tikiporch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Precisely why I won’t use any of their camera robots. That, and Vacuum Wars said the Lidar performed better than the AI obstacle avoidance.