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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by bthrn on Friday August 05, 2022 @10:12AM (#32356354)
My robot vacuum sits docked away from me, on a separate floor, during the day. It runs at night time and I never see it. It's connected to its own IOT network. How would it know how many people live in my home and when I'm not there?
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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by rasz on Friday August 05, 2022 @11:14AM (#32357321)
Shoes/slippers, number of toothbrushes, coats/jackets, beds. Yes, they do have cameras and call home. Opsec is hard.
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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by tinus_hn on Friday August 05, 2022 @10:28AM (#32356560)
Roomba uses cameras which don’t work at night. If you run it in the dark it gets stuck. At least the 960.
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