Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

This is more funny than anything else, but it does have a security lesson in there somewhere. Sammy Azdoufal just wanted to steer his DJI Romo with a gaming controller. "While building his own remote-control app, Sammy Azdoufal reportedly used an AI coding assistant to help reverse-engineer how the robot communicated with DJI's remote cloud servers. But he soon discovered that the same credentials that allowed him to see and control his own device also provided access to live camera feeds, microphone audio, maps, and status data from nearly 7,000 other vacuums across 24 countries."

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