An engineer discovered that the manufacturer can remotely brick his smart vacuum for not collecting data.

  • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    23 hours ago

    It doesn’t appear that anything is being done about this.

    Something has already been done about this: https://valetudo.cloud/

    The “iLife” robot in the article is based on the 3irobotix CRL-200S, a “white label” unit that a bunch of brands sold as their own, up to and including Xiaomi, Viomi, Conga, Cecotec, Proscenic, and even Wyze. I have the Wyze version (the only one sold in the US), which will be getting Valetudo, but I kinda bricked it while attempting to root it. Luckily the motherboards are cheap, I picked up a “new” one for $15. Just waiting for it to show up.