Re: Cheap DVR's Get Hacked

["Bob La Londe" <none@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"JoeRaisin" <joeraisin2001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On 1/30/2013 8:21 PM, Frank Kurz wrote:
>> On 1/30/2013 10:58 AM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>> "Frank Kurz" <tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> news:v_qdnSlB07rQW5XMnZ2dnUVZ_qudnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> On 1/29/2013 10:51 AM, Bill wrote:
>>>>> In article <d03c0282-39d9-453a-b233-e2a9d9f58639@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>>>> chriswheeldon@xxxxxxxxx says...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Every now and then I think "maybe the cheap store-bought DVR's
>>>>>> aren't so bad for the price," then I find a link like this...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/01/29/0111238/58000-security-camera-systems-critically-vulnerable-to-attackers
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Enjoy.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I once worked for a company which had their personnel / payroll
>>>>> computer
>>>>> (mainframe with terminals for employees) in a separate locked metal
>>>>> cage
>>>>> in the computer room. NOT connected to the internet. And all wires
>>>>> going
>>>>> to terminals in the personnel office run in metal conduit pipes!
>>>>>
>>>>> Other high security computers are NOT connected to any phone lines or
>>>>> the internet.
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess that is a good idea!
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We live in a scary world.  My son's PlayStation account information
>>>> was one of the ones that were compromised when Sony got hacked.  Sony
>>>> was complacent about security and left their customers vulnerable.
>>>> Totally unacceptable for a company to not take appropriate precautions
>>>> in this day and age.  My son will never buy another Sony branded
>>>> product as a result.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Fire Protection Technicians Network
>>>> www.firetechs.net
>>>
>>>
>>> You guys know Chinese IBMs were manufactured with spyware on the bios
>>> right? When the spyware is inside your network already its like trying
>>> to block Skype.  You can't.  It would not surprise me to find out that
>>> this was not a flaw, but a designed exploit.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Good point.  That's likely the reason why security equipment from China
>> is so cheap!
>>
>> *** Buy this cheap DVR for $79.99 and pay thousands more later after we
>> hack it and threaten to send your wife/girlfriend/best buddies/PETA
>> pictures of you naked screwing that duck. ***
>>
>> What a racket!
>>
>> :-)
>
> Well YOU try screwing a duck without raising a racket...


Besides... anybody doing the boinky boinky thing in front of a camera has
got to expect somebody else is going to see it eventually.