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- Alice ( @Alice@beehaw.org ) 30•1 day ago
Despite the slurs, Mr Swenson was glad that the hackers had announced their presence so loudly.
It would have been much worse, he said, if they had decided to quietly observe his family inside their home.
They could’ve peered through his robot’s camera, and listened through the microphone, without him having the slightest clue.
Why does a vacuum cleaner have a spy camera and microphone? Insane thing to have in a house with children.
- wizardbeard ( @wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English13•1 day ago
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.
- Alice ( @Alice@beehaw.org ) 1•1 day ago
Ah, yeah that makes sense. Brainfart on my part.
- Ruediger ( @Ruediger@feddit.org ) Deutsch8•1 day ago
Why does it have a audio output?
- FizzyOrange ( @FizzyOrange@programming.dev ) 5•1 day ago
The camera is used for visual odometry. They’re usually black and white and very low resolution though.
Microphone, I have no idea. Could be useful for floor type detection or something? Voice control?
- Asafum ( @Asafum@feddit.nl ) 14•1 day ago
I know people like to have faith in technology but I live by the idea that “if it connects to the internet, it will be hacked/hackable.”
Fuck that noise, I’ll push my “old school” vacuum around tyvm…
- Daemon Silverstein ( @dsilverz@thelemmy.club ) 2•1 day ago
Not just things connected to the internet. Radio-controlled things can also be hacked/hackable. Electronic devices are prone to EM interference. Air-gapped systems have flaws somewhere, even if the flaws come from the human operators (social engineering, humans are hackable). There’s no such thing as a non-hackable thing.
- DontMakeMoreBabies ( @DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.ee ) 11•1 day ago
Don’t buy Chinese electronics where possible. Frankly I just figure they all have built in flaws.
- Randomgal ( @Randomgal@lemmy.ca ) 6•1 day ago
Just flip them over or turn off your router bro…
- wizardbeard ( @wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English7•1 day ago
Some real tyler the creator energy
- Ruediger ( @Ruediger@feddit.org ) Deutsch2•1 day ago
Why? Its hilarious.