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Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline (www.tomshardware.com)
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An engineer discovered that the manufacturer can remotely brick his smart vacuum for not collecting data.

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[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 9 points 1 month ago

And then we got angry because it didn't work and worked on it until 3am.