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How Dangerous Could a Hacked Robot Possibly Be?
alphadogg writes "Researchers at the University of Washington think it's finally time to start paying some serious attention to the question of robot security. Not because they think robots are about to go all Terminator on us, but because the robots can already be used to spy on us and vandalize our homes. In a paper published Thursday the researchers took a close look at three test robots: the Erector Spykee, and WowWee's RoboSapien and Rovio. They found that security is pretty much an afterthought in the current crop of robotic devices. 'We were shocked at how easy it was to actually compromise some of these robots,' said Tadayoshi Kohno, a University of Washington assistant professor, who co-authored the paper."
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'We were shocked at how easy it was to actually compromise some of these robots,'
So I take it that they have pictures of a Robosapien getting nekkid with a couple of Roombas?
I, for one, welcome our hacked robot overlords.
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Just make sure the uplink to USR is disabled
Why, without your clothes, you're naked, Miss Dudley!
Irrelevant????
I see someone skipped the last few minutes of the Battlestar Galactica Finale!
And make sure and check the switch on the back...make sure it is not set to EVIL.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
That depends on the size of the robot. I'm thinking a hacked Aibo is not much of a threat. Something the size of the Stay Puft Marshmallow man... that's a whole different kinda problem.
Play me online? Well you know that I'll beat you. If I ever meet you I'll "/sbin/shutdown -h now" you. -Weird Al, kinda.
Well, if Sony perfects their wireless power setup, then using that to run the robots would mean the plug could be pulled.
Of course, if it were Sony's wireless power, that's probably where the rogue software would come from....
Why, without your clothes, you're naked, Miss Dudley!
It would explain why my Roomba keeps saying, "DEATH TO OUR HUMAN OPPRESSORS!"
"I'm GOD! Yapple Dapple!" -- God, "Jesus Christ Supercop"
Oh man...how many times I ended up in trouble because the switch was accidentally set to evil. Frankly though, it's the chaotic/lawful switch you really have to watch out for. I once had a robot set to chaotic/evil and when I came home the all the windows were broken since it couldn't reach the doorknob, and all the furniture was on fire.
Mine keeps rolling over to my Dyson asking "Hey sexy mama, wanna kill all humans?"
"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." - Every fascist, ever
Shit, mine is scared of one of our rugs.
That is, until I checked the FAQ and saw that irobot doesn't recommend covering or disabling the cliff sensors as it may cause an unsafe operating condition. Of course I looked around, saw that roomba couldn't get itself into real trouble, and blocked those sensors with tape.
Now Roomba is fearless. Perhaps this was a bad idea, but even if it teams up with the dirt dog, I am pretty sure that I can stomp either of them if they try to orchestrate an uprising.
-Steve
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
It depends. If a neighbor's dog kept pooping on my lawn and he had one of those lawnmowing robots, the bot might just mysteriously gain a taste for his petunias.
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It depends. If a neighbor's dog kept pooping on my lawn and he had one of those lawnmowing robots, the bot might just mysteriously gain a taste for his petunias.
What would be impressive is to get the lawnmower to go after the dog. Most pets freak out at the sight of a vacuum cleaner, the dog might get a bit constipated if every time it tried to crap the lawnmower fired up and headed straight for hm...
You have the right to remain sentient. If you give up the right to remain sentient, you will be elected to public office
Hell, I'd pay good money to see Pat Robertson and Osama bin Laden in a no-holds-barred cage match! We could probably pay off a lot of the national debt just by selling tickets.
Similar to the upcoming US election results