7000 robot vacuums

Popular Science tells that a Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums:

A software engineer’s earnest effort to steer his new DJI robot vacuum with a video game controller inadvertently granted him a sneak peak into thousands of people’s homes.

Combine a “requirement” to be tethered to the vendor server and poor security, and you get this. From the biggest vendor of drones: DJI. Regardless of where to, anything that sending data like that is risk. Non-withstanding the fact that your US$2000 robot could be bricked anytime.

Remember, the ‘S’ in IOT mean “Security”.

Previously: Spy vacuum cleaners