US EditionMan Tries to Control His Robot Vacuum with PS5 Controller, Accidentally Takes over 7,000 of Them
- An AI strategist showed to The Verge that an AI coding tool accidentally gained control of roughly 6,700 DJI vacuum devices across 24 countries, including access to live video and metadata.
- A playful experiment to use a game controller led Azdoufal to buy a Romo and use Claude Code to reverse-engineer its cloud authentication, exposing nearly 7,000 vacuums.
- Live video, audio and device metadata were accessible, allowing Azdoufal to steer robots, view onboard cameras, retrieve floorplans and battery levels, and bypass device PINs with a 14-digit code.
- Shortly after being told, DJI closed the loophole, issued automatic patches, and said only a few users exploited the flaw while end users need no action.
- The episode underscores growing concern over smart-home privacy, highlighting risks in Chinese-made DJI devices and showing U.S.-hosted data can be accessed remotely from Spain.
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How a Guy Accidentally Became the Supreme Ruler of an Army of 7,000 Robot Vacuums
When a security researcher named Sammy Azdoufal was trying to build a DIY joystick controller for his robot vacuum, he accidentally discovered a deeply unsettling security flaw: it was easy to gain access to a small army of strangers’ home robot vacuums. It sounds goofy. Totally silly. The stuff of a “weird news” tag on a link aggregation site. But it’s actually a serious gaping security flaw. The device at the center of it all was a DJI Romo, a…
The French programmer Sammy Azdoufal wanted to find a solution to maneuver his robot vacuum cleaner with a PlayStation controller. A few lines of code later, he had had access despite him to some 7,000...
What was supposed to be a fun technical experience turned into a cybersecurity alert. In a few lines of code, a developer discovered that he could access data from thousands of vacuum cleaners
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lejsl.comBy trying to connect his robot vacuum cleaner to his PlayStation controller, the French Sammy Azdoufal managed to take control of 7,000 devices around the world.
A computer engineer wanted to check his own with a joypad, but a security breach opened a world for him.
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