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The owner did not hack the vacuum, he blocked the IP address on his network for the telemetry server. Same thing tons of people do with Pi-Hole DNS blocking, fo
by Sanzig 11mo ago
The owner did not hack the vacuum, he blocked the IP address on his network for the telemetry server. Same thing tons of people do with Pi-Hole DNS blocking, for example.
There's no sane world where it is defensible to remotely brick a device because it can't communicate with a telemetry server.
- consp 11mo agoNot just devices. Same for apps. If you block the live monitoring features of some crash accumulators apps will not function. (Looking at you dexcom)
- hulitu 11mo ago> There's no sane world where it is defensible to remotely brick a device because it can't communicate with a telemetry server. Just today: Setting up an old smartphone: "Google assistant cannot work on this device." The only choice was "back". Had to search on the internet the solution: do not connect to wi-fi.