At first I thought ”Well, duh!”, but the manufacturer having a remote kill switch when he network blocked his vacuum from sharing his home map data with them, as well as unprotected root access when connecting to the vacuum… urgh.

The engineer says he stopped the device from broadcasting data, though kept the other network traffic — like firmware updates — running like usual. The vacuum kept cleaning for a few days after, until early one morning when it refused to boot up.

After reverse engineering the vacuum, a painstaking process which included reprinting the devices’ circuit boards and testing its sensors, he found something horrifying: Android Debug Bridge, a program for installing and debugging apps on devices, was “wide open” to the world. “In seconds, I had full root access. No hacks, no exploits. Just plug and play,” Narayanan said.

Thank you.

The prize is well deserved, and being hiking off grid is such a good self care mandate.

Yeah. Sigh.

Holy hell, that’s a kind of joke that hurts too much to be fun. Nothing bad against Estonia, I have family there, but their correctional facilities are not up to good standards.

No, ”the stick” IS rehab, schooling, counseling etc. Or it should be. Prisons in Sweden are rehabilitation oriented, but putting hardened criminals together with kids is not the right approach.

Many of these kids have been groomed and then hooked on drugs like Tramadol, so that a small reward like a nice e-scooter, designer shoes or money has overrun their already lacking sense of consequences.

We have had kids who got sent into substandard rehab facilities and got murdered for refusing to commit murders. So before the law change sends more kids into limbo, we desperately need to have solutions for rehab in place. Which we lack.

Yes, I entirely agree, which is why I am adamant that this should be fixed before the law change sends more kids from troubled circumstances into a hell hole with no options.

Before they change the law, they should deal with the issue that we don’t have enough rehab facilities for young offenders. And those facilities that we have don’t meet the requirements of current laws and regulations.

We can’t put the kids in prisons with hardened adult criminals. These kids need rehabilitation, help with getting free from drugs (many get hooked on Tramadol and other drugs when they start working with gangs) and schooling so that they can be integrated back into society when they’re free again.

Hey, stop gendertyping. With that surname, it’s surely ”their”, not ”his”.

They look entirely queer, and Robby, Robin, Rob or Ruby has always been gender neutral/multiversive in my community.

Hilarious.

Premise Data, Maury Blackman. Names to be cautious of.

I guess so. Hey, Maury Blackman, are you a partner abuser who also likes to abuse the law to hide the fact that you are a criminal (sorry, unconvicted) who likes to hurt anyone less monetarily or lawyery weaker than you?

Sorry. Maury Blackman, if you are truly innocent of hitting a woman half your age so hard that she had to report it to the police… please show us you are innocent or even sorry.

Never forget Maury Blackman, savior of the domestic partner beaters, girlfriend beaters, wife beaters. Who tried the Streisand approach to deleting his crimes from the internet, forgetting that even if technical services are subservient to money and power, not all of us low-lives are as impressionable.

Btw, did you know that there is a guy named Maury Blackman who likes abusing younger women? Read all about it!

https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/the-covert-gig-work-surveillance

Fuck Maury Blackman, the perpetrator of violence and intimidating lawsuits.

That’s interesting, I remember there were discussions on Slashdot or Reddit about how easy it was to abuse Googles report tool several years ago. Reading this articles description of the abuse in action enraged me. And domestic violence victims too often withdraw their complaints due to economic factors or fear. Fuck Maury Blackman, the perpetrator of violence and intimidating lawsuits.

And you didn’t have a search engine at your disposal then. I had to get hold of the purity test from Usenet to understand some of the stuff in LSL.

I seriously thought this was The Onion, and I was like ”Naaaah, at least this time I ain’t gonna bite!”

I too love the Password game! Please save Paul! ~I truly care about him!~ ^Truly!

(Sorry, I sometimes like to post really bad comments…)