The big concern should be DJI having access to cameras and microphones in who knows how many millions of households.
The bigger concern should be that this is how badly coded and how little concern there is about security there is with smart appliances in people’s homes.
Working as a consultant and seeing the code that runs online services made me realize how fucked up everything is and to accept that nobody knows or cares about what they are doing with other people’s integrity. AI in coding is barely making a dent in it.
That’s less of a concern over the corporate actors who have infiltrated our houses.
Even if it was completely secure, they would still have access to this information and that would be by utilised by a state in some capacity against us.
Every device we have is sending our data to these companies, our homes and streets are full of Orwellian Telescreens surveilling our every move. It’s inescapable and as the means for them to better amalgamate and act on this data increases, the bleaker our future becomes.
We should probably take “engineering” out of software titles.
Anybody can code an application, it takes a software engineer to barely code it.
Always remember:
the S in IoT stands for security
Hey look a fellow dev that actually tries. Good to meet you.
‘Company deliberately has control of over 6,700 robot vacuums while selling them to unsuspecting general public’
“AI Strategist” <vomit>
You don’t have to be smart to use a broom but you have to be stupid to buy a vacuum with microphone and camera.
Or just ignorant.
honestly, in today’s world and in this context, it’s often the same thing
if you’re ignorant of what these smart devices are doing in [current year], you’re almost definitely stupid for choosing to be ignorant of it. it’s been a whole decade of this stuff now. you’ve been exposed to it, and you’ve made the chose to remain ignorant.
Most people I talk to doesn’t even know who Edward Snowden is
connected to a server outside of your house
Or disabled and unable to sweep :(
broom gang broom gang
Shame they didn’t get access to the analytics. It would be very interesting to see the extent these data collected are used.
For instance, training voice AI on customer data. Or voice printing to make a location map of users and selling that data. Or customizing ads that show up on their devices based on what’s in the home, etc etc
Why is any of this connected to a spinning turbine sucking air into a filter bag? We have collectively failed as a society, instead of building a leisure society, we build a society of useless over-engineered gadgets programmed by people driving to the office for no reason while being told to reduce our carbon emissions.
I hate when someone’s house has an Alexa or whatever and I either have to accept it’s listening to me, or spend social credit asking if they can turn it off when I’m there (I’ve never actually made that request).
That’s a tuff number boiii
I have some suggestions about how their security engineer’s routine looks like:
Why are they collecting this data in the first place? You can’t mishandle data you don’t have. The fact that remote access to video is even possible, is very alarming.
Its a pretty good example of things you can do with Claude.
