• randy@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    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.

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      4 months ago

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

  • tomalley8342@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    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