Sometimes I look at my robot vacuum and wonder if it knows how much I like it. I do not ponder if it's staring back at me, thinking...well...who know what? If I owned an Ecovac robot vacuum, though, that might be all I was thinking about and, soon, throwing a blanket over its potentially rapacious camera.
According to a new report and the work of long-time robot vacuum hackers, some Ecovac vacuums can, with some skill but no physical, access be hacked, giving would-be attackers access to all onboard systems and sensors, including the camera.
