Re: Cheap DVR's Get Hacked

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On Saturday, February 2, 2013 9:14:01 AM UTC-5, JoeRaisin wrote:
> On 2/1/2013 3:07 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
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> > "JoeRaisin" <joeraisin2001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > news:kech5b$ha4$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> >> On 1/30/2013 8:21 PM, Frank Kurz wrote:
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> >>> On 1/30/2013 10:58 AM, Bob La Londe wrote:
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> >>>> "Frank Kurz" <tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >>>> news:v_qdnSlB07rQW5XMnZ2dnUVZ_qudnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> >>>>> On 1/29/2013 10:51 AM, Bill wrote:
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> >>>>>> In article <d03c0282-39d9-453a-b233-e2a9d9f58639@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>=
,
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> >>>>>> chriswheeldon@xxxxxxxxx says...
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> >>>>>>>
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> >>>>>>> Every now and then I think "maybe the cheap store-bought DVR's
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> >>>>>>> aren't so bad for the price," then I find a link like this...
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> >>>>>>>
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> >>>>>>> http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/01/29/0111238/58000-security-came=
ra-systems-critically-vulnerable-to-attackers
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> >>>>>>>
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> >>>>>>>
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> >>>>>>>
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> >>>>>>> Enjoy.
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> >>>>>>>
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> >>>>>>
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> >>>>>> I once worked for a company which had their personnel / payroll
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> >>>>>> computer
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> >>>>>> (mainframe with terminals for employees) in a separate locked meta=
l
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> >>>>>> cage
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> >>>>>> in the computer room. NOT connected to the internet. And all wires
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> >>>>>> going
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> >>>>>> to terminals in the personnel office run in metal conduit pipes!
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> >>>>>>
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> >>>>>> Other high security computers are NOT connected to any phone lines=
 or
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> >>>>>> the internet.
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> >>>>>>
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> >>>>>> I guess that is a good idea!
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> >>>>>>
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> >>>>>
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> >>>>> We live in a scary world.  My son's PlayStation account information
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> >>>>> was one of the ones that were compromised when Sony got hacked.  So=
ny
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> >>>>> was complacent about security and left their customers vulnerable.
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> >>>>> Totally unacceptable for a company to not take appropriate precauti=
ons
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> >>>>> in this day and age.  My son will never buy another Sony branded
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> >>>>> product as a result.
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> >>>>>
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> >>>>> --
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> >>>>> Fire Protection Technicians Network
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> >>>>> www.firetechs.net
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> >>>>
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> >>>>
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> >>>> You guys know Chinese IBMs were manufactured with spyware on the bio=
s
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> >>>> right? When the spyware is inside your network already its like tryi=
ng
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> >>>> to block Skype.  You can't.  It would not surprise me to find out th=
at
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> >>>> this was not a flaw, but a designed exploit.
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> >>>>
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> >>>
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> >>> Good point.  That's likely the reason why security equipment from Chi=
na
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> >>> is so cheap!
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> >>>
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> >>> *** Buy this cheap DVR for $79.99 and pay thousands more later after =
we
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> >>> hack it and threaten to send your wife/girlfriend/best buddies/PETA
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> >>> pictures of you naked screwing that duck. ***
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> >>>
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> >>> What a racket!
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> >>>
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> >>> :-)
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> >>
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> >> Well YOU try screwing a duck without raising a racket...
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> >
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> > Besides... anybody doing the boinky boinky thing in front of a camera
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> > has got to expect somebody else is going to see it eventually.
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> First five rules of sexual shenanigans (which includes affairs and/or=20
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> embarrassing behaviors/partners), never write anything down, never take=
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> any pictures, deny, deny, deny...
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> Having done more than a few camera installs, and having installed and/or=
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> serviced systems with covert cameras and those with full perimeter=20
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> coverage, I just assume that anytime I am out of my house, I am on some=
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> sort of a camera.
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> And sooner or later, those cameras are going to able to do the shit they=
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> already do in movies and on the TV.

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