Comment by shevy-java
19 hours ago
The ideal spy army. Nobody expects the spanish inquisition I mean, being able to spy into households via cheap house-cleaning devices.
19 hours ago
The ideal spy army. Nobody expects the spanish inquisition I mean, being able to spy into households via cheap house-cleaning devices.
"Nobody expects the spanish inquisition…"
Why not? They bought roving cameras that surveil their homes and connected them to internet servers they neither own nor control.
They obviously don't give a shit about privacy or they've room-temperature IQs.
Ordinary users don't know. They bought a robo-vac, they do not necessarily know it comes with a microphone or camera.
I work in tech, I never thought about buying one, so I never looked into them. Still, I am surprised they come with microphones.
> Still, I am surprised they come with microphones.
Me too, what are they for?
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IoT, internet privacy, spyware, etc. have been repeatedly in the news ad nauseam since about 2000. If they don't know by now where have they been for the past quarter century?
The first and most obvious question an owner should ask "why does a vacuum cleaner need to talk with the internet?" It's hard to have sympathy for people who go out of their way to act dumb.
Some of us do. I specifically picked a device that (supposedly) lacked cameras and microphones. LIDAR seemed okay.
I picked something that can be rooted and made cloud-free with Valetudo for the same reason
Why can't I pay to express my consumer preferences? Why must I deliberately buy broken stuff and fix it myself?
There's enough broken stuff to fix at work.
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