Found this in the cyberpunk subreddit in a post from 2 years ago with people complaining that people were over-reacting and it’s ‘just a camera on legs that will never be weaponized’. Cue San Francisco want to weaponize one a year later, also apparently Dallas used their bomb disabling robot to kill a sniper in 2016.

Here’s some totally random paperwork on Spot’s network setup! https://support.bostondynamics.com/s/article/Spot-network-setup

It should be noted that some versions of spot have both 5ghz and 2.4ghz wifi but should still be vulnerable to deauth attacks. Upon losing network connection for more than a few seconds the robot should sit down and turn off the motors. However, they do make an LTE capable version. :this-is-fine:

  • blobjim [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 years ago

    you can hack it and commandeer it.

    this isn’t a movie lol. Someone developing it would have to actively make it insecure for it to be “commandeer-able”.