Anonymous26 days ago
A French programmer's attempt to drive his $2,000 DJI robot vacuum with a PlayStation controller accidentally exposed a catastrophic cloud vulnerability affecting 7,000 devices in 24 countries — revealing live camera feeds, microphone access, and floor plans of strangers' homes. The incident is the latest in a pattern of alarming consumer IoT security failures, from Ecovacs vacuums hijacked to shout slurs at families to a 10-million-device smart TV botnet, raising urgent questions about whether the smart home industry can secure the 21 billion connected devices now in the world.