Yarbo says it will remove the intentional backdoor from its robot lawn mower

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Yarbo, the company behind a robot lawn mower, announced it will eliminate a controversial backdoor access feature that could have been exploited for unauthorized control. This decision comes as a response to security concerns raised by users and researchers.

The company behind the robot lawn mower that ran me over has changed its tune. Yarbo now plans to completely remove the remote backdoor access that could have let bad actors reprogram the robot over the internet. Yarbo customers will be able to decide whether that feature even gets installed in the first place, co-founder Kenneth Kohlmann pledges to The Verge. Yarbo had already promised on Friday that it would tackle many security issues head-on, closing the holes that let security researcher Andreas Makris easily hijack any of the bladed robots from the other side of the globe, while also exposing email addresses and GPS locations. But whe … Read the full story at The Verge.