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Softbank's 'Pepper' robot is a security joke

posted onMay 29, 2018
by l33tdawg

Softbank's popular anthropomorphic robot, Pepper, has myriad security holes according to research published by Scandinavian researchers earlier this month.

The 'bot allows unauthenticated root-level access, runs a Meltdown/Spectre-vulnerable processor, can be administered over unencrypted HTTP and has a default root password.

The researchers, Örebro University's Alberto Giaretta working with Michele De Donno and Nicola Drgoni of the Technical University of Sweden, decided that while there have been various one-off stunt-hacks of the robot, they weren't aware of any systematic assessment of Pepper's security.

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