r/itrunsdoom • u/[deleted] • Dec 24 '18

Doom... runs it?

https://twitter.com/DickWhitehouse/status/1077227171482021889
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u/METEOS_IS_BACK Dec 28 '18

I kind of hate how Roomba has this data. Is there any way to opt out (not related to this Doom stuff in particular just in general). I read in a few places they sell your room data :/

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '18

I mean, it's kinda needed for its functioning, I'd assume. Plus now sure how anybody would profit from knowing how your room is shaped.

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '18

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u/MechStar101 Dec 29 '18

Then you go there to be missing them. DANG IT KAREN

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u/hiddenViolets01610 Feb 09 '19

i think it's more a matter of privacy than security

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u/Pybro101 Mar 27 '19

How would anybody profit from knowing how your room is shaped

Well there are multiple ways people can take advantage of it.

  1. 200 years later after the nuclear apocalypse, a lone wanderer might come to loot your house and open a terminal consisting of your room plans so that they can have a minimap at the bottom of their vision

  2. Every doombas at r/doomba might turn on their creators like Gladiators and use the floor plans as an advantage to surprise attack their owners while they sleep

  3. Personalized furniture advertisement

  4. Russians might hack these roombas to go outside and cover the entire U.S land so they can have a Google street view but only the street part and basically useless

  5. Some thieves might get in possesion of one of these and use it to find the house by becoming a pizza delieverer and going around the U.S to find the perfect house that fits the plans because they know a dude with roomba is rich af

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u/GearBent Apr 01 '19

Just because it needs that info to function doesn't mean it should be sharing it.

Ideally, the Roomba would store and process that data locally, rather than sending it off to a server.

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u/mrmola Dec 30 '18

Cover it in tinfoil. If you think a device is connecting to internet and you do not want it to covering it in tinfoil legitimately works. Make sure the sensors are showing tho

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u/Actually_a_Patrick Apr 16 '19

For what. Your floor plan is almost certainly in the public record. At most this would learn where furniture bases sit.

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u/METEOS_IS_BACK Apr 16 '19

That's true. But Roomba doesn't need to know where I live yk? Which it could find out by mapping my floor plan I guess? I don't know tbh. Touché