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Man buys internet controlled vacuum advertised to map your home, surprised it is mapping his home
The actual article doesn’t quite align, he seems more horrified that the manufacturer is remotely disabling his device because he blocked the telemetry.
Given the skill of the guy, I’m guessing he’s not that surprised that the telemetry existed, since he went looking for it to start with. But I guess it made a better headline.
On a more constructive note, if you want control then buy a robot on Valetudos supported device list and install it.
He was even more surprised when they bricked it after he disabled the telemetry. Maybe it was part of the terms of service but the article says the telemetry is without user consent.
Yup, those maps of our houses are going to come in handy for the fascists when they move on from the poorest of us
As the article describes, it wasn’t so much that the vacuum sent the map because it didn’t have the local processing to work without it. The problem was that their servers sent a remote kill packet to his vacuum whenever he blocked it from sharing his data. So his vacuum would completely stop until he sent it back for service.
