Re: Cheap DVR's Get Hacked

[JoeRaisin <joeraisin2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/1/2013 3:07 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
> "JoeRaisin" <joeraisin2001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:kech5b$ha4$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 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.
>
>
>

First five rules of sexual shenanigans (which includes affairs and/or
embarrassing behaviors/partners), never write anything down, never take
any pictures, deny, deny, deny...

Having done more than a few camera installs, and having installed and/or
serviced systems with covert cameras and those with full perimeter
coverage, I just assume that anytime I am out of my house, I am on some
sort of a camera.

And sooner or later, those cameras are going to able to do the shit they
already do in movies and on the TV.