Hacking a Robot Vacuum
Someone tries to remote control his own DJI Romo vacuum, and ends up controlling 7,000 of them from all around the world.
The IoT is horribly insecure, but we already knew that.
Someone tries to remote control his own DJI Romo vacuum, and ends up controlling 7,000 of them from all around the world.
The IoT is horribly insecure, but we already knew that.
Clive Robinson • Marc...
The article presents a stark illustration of the "known unknown" problem within the IoT, framed as a series of escalating vulnerabilities rather than a singular, shocking event. The core narrative—that the focus on speed and cost has created a globally distributed network of insecure devices—aligns with ARC-0043 (Motte-and-Bailey) concerning the predictable nature of technical failures when security is consistently sacrificed. Robinson’s observation about “what the many others don’t know” taps i...
