Your Yarbo can evidently be controlled by anyone

According to the Verge they a reporter met with someone who showed them how all Yarbo units have the same admin password and way to get into them and control them. Assuming this is true, and I have little reason to doubt, it’s bad. For a TL;DR of the article he had the hacker break in and then run him over with the tank so he could get some photos. Also that the emergency stop button is a software control and does not actually physically disconnect power to the treads, which would have been so incredibly simple to implement. I will note that the firmware listed is “April 2026” and 2.3.9 which is not a firmware version we’ve had in a very long time. The current firmware is 3.13.3. I’m not sure if they got hold of an old firmware, or if there’s an app on the device that’s referring to, or if the two units listed in this article just have something wrong and won’t update. Being a little mobile linux box with WiFi, Cell, HaLOW connection, GPS, you might be wondering what the damage for…