| ▲ | Sanzig 13 hours ago | |
The owner did not hack the vacuum, he blocked the IP address on his network for the telemetry server. Same thing tons of people do with Pi-Hole DNS blocking, for example. There's no sane world where it is defensible to remotely brick a device because it can't communicate with a telemetry server. | ||
| ▲ | consp 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Not just devices. Same for apps. If you block the live monitoring features of some crash accumulators apps will not function. (Looking at you dexcom) | ||
| ▲ | hulitu 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
> There's no sane world where it is defensible to remotely brick a device because it can't communicate with a telemetry server. Just today: Setting up an old smartphone: "Google assistant cannot work on this device." The only choice was "back". Had to search on the internet the solution: do not connect to wi-fi. | ||