Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House | Futurism

Forget your phone spying on you — maybe it’s your vacuum you should really be worried about. In a post on his blog Small World, the computer programmer and electronics enthusiast Harishankar Narayanan detailed a startling find he made about his $300 smart vacuum: it was transmitting intimate data out of his home. Narayanan had been letting his iLife A11 smart vacuum — a popular gadget that’s gained mainstream media coverage — do its thing for about a year, before he became curious about its inner workings. Read full story…

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