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Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums (www.popsci.com)

submitted 17 hours ago by resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 52 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

But he soon discovered that the same credentials that allowed him to see and control his own device also provided access to live camera feeds, microphone audio, maps, and status data from nearly 7,000 other vacuums across 24 countries. The backend security bug

I feel like "bug" is doing a looot of heavy lifting here.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It also illustrates how a security vulnerability is simply a bug, albeit a dangerous one.

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Is it a bug though in this case? To me a bug is when a program behaves in a way that's not intended. This might very well be a case of the program behaving exactly as intended, except the intentions of the people who made it were wrong.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago

An online service is a program (or a bunch of program).

Giving access when it's not supposed to falls into behaving in a way that's not intended.

Therefore, an online service giving access when it's not supposed to can be classified as a program behaving in a way that's not intended.

Thus, this case fits into your very definition.