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

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 months ago (6 children)

On May 24, the same day that Mr Swenson's device was hacked, a Deebot X2 went rogue, and chased its owner's dog around their Los Angeles home.

The robot was being steered from afar, with abusive comments coming through the speakers.

...

Late at night, an Ecovacs robot in El Paso started spewing racial slurs at its owner until he unplugged it.

The future is stupid.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (5 children)

These hackers are stupid.

I dint understand how you have the intelligence and patience to learn enough to hack one of these, but the go with some unoriginal racist bullshit.

Could've actually made it fun and original.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"Come with me if you want to live"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Yum Yum Thrash, I love thrash

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