A hacker ran me over with a robot lawn mower
I’m lying in the dirt. It’s coming for me. Then, with a lurch, it’s climbing up my chest. If Andreas Makris doesn’t stop the 200-pound robot lawn mower in time, it could drag its blades across my body.
Makris certainly can’t reach over and hit the emergency stop button — he’s nearly 6,000 miles away, having hacked this robot from the other side of the planet, to demonstrate the gaping security holes in Yarbo’s robot lawn mowers. And I’ve made the questionable decision of lying down in the mower’s path — to see just how far Makris, the security researcher who discovered those flaws, is able to push the mower.
By the time the mower touches my body, Makris has already proven his point: the $5,000 robot lawn mowers from Yarbo have such ridiculous security vulnerabilities that a foreign hacker can easilyhijack a bladed gadget in the United States....
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