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.
Yeah a big red shutoff should be the cutoff to the electricity, water, air, oil, or whatever else it’s meant to stop.
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
