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Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline (www.tomshardware.com)
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An engineer discovered that the manufacturer can remotely brick his smart vacuum for not collecting data.

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It's a tidal wave. It's very hard to stop. The wave consists of about a trillion variables all pointing in the wrong direction.

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