Ever been run over by a robot? I have — for science! Yarbo's $5,000 robot lawn mowers have such poor security, thousands upon thousands of them are broadcasting their info, and it's trivial to hack into them, find their GPS coordinates, spy through their cameras, get the owner's Wi-Fi passwords and email addresses, even drive them away, from the other side of the planet. We found actual Yarbo owners exactly where a security researcher told us they would be, and one of them let us demo the entire hack live.
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