AbaixoDeCao@lemmy.ca to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 13 days agoMan accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuumswww.popsci.comexternal-linkmessage-square12linkfedilinkarrow-up1154arrow-down11cross-posted to: nottheonion@lemmy.worldprivacy@programming.dev
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minus-squareDave@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·edit-213 days agoI guess the most plausible explanation is incompetence, there wouldn’t be a reason to do this on purpose (a backdoor), right? Since the company could have easily used different credentials per device that they store anyway?
minus-squareDrunkenPirate@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up12·13 days agoI would rather say ignorance. They just shit on IT-security for the sake of fast product launches. A slightly similar event happened to Pudu service robots last year August. An auth token that could be used for all their robots.
I guess the most plausible explanation is incompetence, there wouldn’t be a reason to do this on purpose (a backdoor), right? Since the company could have easily used different credentials per device that they store anyway?
I would rather say ignorance. They just shit on IT-security for the sake of fast product launches.
A slightly similar event happened to Pudu service robots last year August. An auth token that could be used for all their robots.