Makris explains that not only does each Yarbo robot have the same hardcoded root password, but owners can’t defend themselves just by manually setting a better password. Every time Yarbo updates a robot’s firmware, it changes the robot’s root password right back to its default password.

lol

Even if you press that big red emergency stop button on the mower itself, a hacker can send another command to unlock it, Makris says.

Holy cow. I work in factories, and I know enough about industrial safety to know that would not fly.

copied from my mastodon

Alexa, mow down my enemies and livestream me the audio so I can hear the lamentation of their women.

he did it intentionally.

“I’ve made the questionable decision of lying down in the mower’s path — to see just how far Makris, the security researcher who discovered those flaws, is able to push the mower.”

Read without the paywall: https://archive.is/mTp9k