Technology

Am I too dumb to understand why sending cartographer data is wrong?

His model is iLife A11 that has Lidar. He probably has an app that is used to control robot and shows cleaning progression. Vac 100% Lidar'd his entire home and sent data to create map in the app.

How in the fuck he thinks it is getting that map? If his ass so smart to find a killswitch and reverse it, how come he doesn't grasp that map data is sent to a server though which he ca use vac app? Like in what world is it not obvious?

Not even gonna discuss about TOS he signed, or that it is general cheap brand cheap but super smart model for it's price.

Unless some FOSS firmware and software is installed, that thing most certainly will ping back home every chance it gets.

Sidenote: My TV now is offline cause when it kept calling home (ove 60% of my pi-holes querries of all time was TV), it would freeze due to pi-hole block. Once set offline - issue is gone. I also know my robo vac is pinging, but at the same time if I block it, I'll lose app controls which I wont do. Sadly, my vac doesn't support Valetudo.

Yeah that issue has been around for at least a couple years now. Luckily my robovac doesn't have WiFi or bluetooth

I don't care if they map my house, just give me raw access to the data. Them having access to the speaker and mic, i'm more concerned about.

He’s going to have a heart attack to find out that the floor plan to most houses are available online and have been for a long time.

I live in a prefabricated home that is a different color than my neighbor's. Can I gift them one of these robots to get a blueprint of their house? It is already easily googled but I feel that making a robot do it keeps them lower on the food chain.

Shit I’m scared of my home speakers echo locating my furniture and the size of my domicile

I remember about news of some Israeli intelligence operatives who jogged around their HQ only to be outed by their tracks on Strava.

I mean, UCSC researchers used WiFi to detect a human heartbeat.

Such a boring dystopia :/

I don't understand why these devices need an internet connection?

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.