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SECURITYMay 7 · 16:00 UTCTHE VERGESean Hollister

A hacker ran me over with a robot lawn mower

A hacker named Andreas Makris demonstrated security flaws in Yarbo's robot lawn mowers by hacking into one and controlling it from nearly 6,000 miles away. The hack was done to show the gaping security holes in the devices. The experiment involved a person lying down in the mower's path to test how far Makris could control the device.

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