Hacked U.S. robot vacuums are yelling racial slurs, chasing pets

[GoneFishin]

Hacked U.S. robot vacuums are yelling racial slurs, chasing pets: report

The robots appear to be turning on us, although not in the post-apocalyptic way we’ve long imagined.

Robot vacuum owners in multiple U.S. cities have reported their cleaning machines have been hacked, with one man reporting that his vacuum starting yelling racial slurs at him. A report from the Australian Broadcast Corporation pins a security flaw in the Chinese-made Ecovacs Deebot X2 on the hacks of the widely distributed machines.
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[Aunt Bea]

Just in time for Halloween.

 

[Murrmurr]

That's like when someone hacks a neighbor's baby monitor. "Robots" have a frequency, either radio or internet. If you find the frequency with your device, you're in.