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Hackers take control of robot vacuums in multiple US cities and abuse owners (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 11 months ago by lemmee_in@lemm.ee to c/privacy@programming.dev

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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Camera makes some amount of sense. Can be used to keep it from running over wires, or getting caught up in something like a loose curtain. Stuff that would be difficult to handle with non-visual sensors.

Microphone? Oh hell no. No purpose.

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[–] Alice@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

Ah, yeah that makes sense. Brainfart on my part.

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