SINGAPORE: Your robot vacuum cleaner could be picking up private conversations along with the dust and dirt in your home.
“The proliferation of smart devices – including smart speakers and smart security cameras – has increased the avenues for hackers to snoop on our private moments," said Mr Sami."Our method shows it is now possible to gather sensitive data just by using something as innocuous as a household robot vacuum cleaner. Our work demonstrates the urgent need to find practical solutions to prevent such malicious attacks.
“The system was able to detect the digits being spoken aloud, which could constitute a victim’s credit card or bank account numbers. Music clips from television shows could potentially disclose the victim’s viewing preferences or political orientation,” said NUS. NUS students Dai Yimin and Sean Tan Rui Xiang, as well as Assistant Professor Nirupam Roy from the University of Maryland, contributed to the research. The research was presented at the Association for Computing Machinery's Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems on Nov 18, where the team clinched the Best Poster Runner Up Award.To prevent Lidars from being misused, people with robot vacuum cleaners are advised to not connect them to the Internet.
"We might have to accept that each new Internet-connected sensing device brought into our homes poses an additional risk to our privacy, and make our choices carefully.”
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