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Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums
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this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2026
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I guess the most plausible explanation is incompetence, there wouldn't be a reason to do this on purpose (a backdoor), right? Since the company could have easily used different credentials per device that they store anyway?
I would rather say ignorance. They just shit on IT-security for the sake of fast product launches.
A slightly similar event happened to Pudu service robots last year August. An auth token that could be used for all their robots.