The DJI Romo robovac had security so poor, this man remotely accessed thousands of them

The DJI Romo robot vacuum successful its translucent dock. | Image: DJI

Sammy Azdoufal claims helium wasn't trying to hack each robot vacuum successful the world. He conscionable wanted to distant power his brand-new DJI Romo vacuum with a PS5 gamepad, helium tells The Verge, due to the fact that it sounded fun.

But erstwhile his homegrown distant power app started talking to DJI's servers, it wasn't conscionable one vacuum cleaner that replied. Roughly 7,000 of them, each astir the world, began treating Azdoufal similar their boss.

He could remotely power them, and look and perceive done their unrecorded camera feeds, helium tells me, saying helium tested that retired with a friend. He could ticker them representation retired each country of a house, generating a implicit 2D level plan. He …

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