A reporter for The Verge was thankfully unharmed after a white hat hacker seized control of a Yarbo lawnmower robot.
Original title, which I removed for being sensationalist:
Hacker Takes Over Robot Lawnmower, Runs Over Innocent Man
Noteworthy sections
Alarmingly, the Yarbo robots all had the same root password, Makris found.
Even changing the root password wouldn’t necessarily protect owners, either, because every time a Yarbo robot updates its firmware, it resets the root password back to the default, Makris found. And there’s a twist: it appears that this backdoor for remotely accessing the robots was intentionally created by Yarbo.
I will say the title used here did get me to click through because the way it’s worded made me wonder if there was a lawsuit being brought up. Obviously, since it was staged, that wasn’t the case. I wasn’t pleased at being tricked.
Honestly if they had used my title I still would have looked at the article, so my click would have been given anyway. I just now come away annoyed where I otherwise wouldn’t have.
I generally expect better from Futurism.
I saw that headline earlier this week and skipped reading it. I still skipped the source with this post, but at least you took some highlights out so I know more. Thanks for engaging with it and making it more digestible.