At first I thought ”Well, duh!”, but the manufacturer having a remote kill switch when he network blocked his vacuum from sharing his home map data with them, as well as unprotected root access when connecting to the vacuum… urgh.
The engineer says he stopped the device from broadcasting data, though kept the other network traffic — like firmware updates — running like usual. The vacuum kept cleaning for a few days after, until early one morning when it refused to boot up.
After reverse engineering the vacuum, a painstaking process which included reprinting the devices’ circuit boards and testing its sensors, he found something horrifying: Android Debug Bridge, a program for installing and debugging apps on devices, was “wide open” to the world.
“In seconds, I had full root access. No hacks, no exploits. Just plug and play,” Narayanan said.
I guess so. Hey, Maury Blackman, are you a partner abuser who also likes to abuse the law to hide the fact that you are a criminal (sorry, unconvicted) who likes to hurt anyone less monetarily or lawyery weaker than you?
Sorry. Maury Blackman, if you are truly innocent of hitting a woman half your age so hard that she had to report it to the police… please show us you are innocent or even sorry.
Yep. ”Ooh, this female looks nice… free food and then sex!”