{"id":224078,"date":"2025-10-26T22:19:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T03:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/the-day-my-smart-vacuum-turned-against-me"},"modified":"2025-10-26T22:19:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T03:19:56","slug":"the-day-my-smart-vacuum-turned-against-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/the-day-my-smart-vacuum-turned-against-me","title":{"rendered":"The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-day-my-smart-vacuum-turned-against-me.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Would you allow a stranger to drive a camera-equipped computer around your living room? You might have already done so without even realizing it.<\/p>\n<p>It all started innocently enough. I had recently bought an iLife A11 smart vacuum\u2014a sleek, affordable, and technologically advanced robot promising effortless cleaning and intelligent navigation. As a curious engineer, I was fascinated by its workings. After leaving it to operate for the entire year, my curiosity got the better of me.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a bit paranoid\u2014the good kind of paranoid. So, I decided to monitor its network traffic, as I would with any so-called smart device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you allow a stranger to drive a camera-equipped computer around your living room? You might have already done so without even realizing it. It all started innocently enough. I had recently bought an iLife A11 smart vacuum\u2014a sleek, affordable, and technologically advanced robot promising effortless cleaning and intelligent navigation. As a curious engineer, I [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}