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How to Hack an Expensive Camera

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Re: How to Hack an Expensive Camera

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Post by Quequau »

noch wrote: post #24
ackbar03 wrote: post #10

This is crazy, how on earth do you have the patience and persistence to work on something like this??? It took five - six years?

> This is crazy, how on earth do you have the patience and persistence to work on something like this??? It took five - six years? Immediate gratification culture (a generational problem?) teaches us that the very short term is the meaningful range in which to work and expect results. But anyone who has become a master at their art or craft knows that 10+ year projects are normal and that the long-term is where maste…

There is absolutely no way that immediate gratification culture is a generational problem. I've worked my entire adult life in R&D for medical diagnostic devices and in those forty years nearly all the bad decisions I've been subjected to had quarterly stock results as the eventual root cause (if you dug long enough).

Calling it a generational problem is like blaming Millennials for the participation prizes that they got as kids which the adults invented, created, and awarded.

Re: How to Hack an Expensive Camera

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Post by ndnxhs »

dharma1 wrote: post #26

This is why we need open source cameras - so people don't need to spend 6 years reverse engineering and still not getting much out of it

This is part of the reason I can't get in to reverse engineering. It takes an incredible amount of time to get a little done when in the same time you probably could have written your own camera firmware. I do remember seeing an open source camera but it was a really high end one and very expensive.

Re: How to Hack an Expensive Camera

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Post by syntaxing »

getorix wrote: post #36

Heh, I feel like I need to clarify something. Don't get me wrong, it was not 24/7. Instead it was occasional work with huge several month long gaps :)

If you don't mind me asking, what do you do for a living? Your expertise in this is seriously impressive.

Re: How to Hack an Expensive Camera

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Post by codetrotter »

avhon1 wrote: post #17
codetrotter wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In Safari on iOS you can use the back button of the browser to jump back to where you were on the page before you clicked the link to the reference. You should see if the browser you are using does that as well.

This also works in pretty much every other browser I know of.

Absolutely :) Named anchors in a page have been around for a long time and I recall that going back from a page internal link would bring you to the place in the page that you were for as long as I can remember.

Would be interesting to know which browser was the first to keep track of scroll position for history entries.

Mosaic was before my time but I wouldn’t be completely surprised to learn that even it would store scroll position.

Re: How to Hack an Expensive Camera

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Post by gntheprogrammer »

ndnxhs wrote: post #32
dharma1 wrote: post #26

This is why we need open source cameras - so people don't need to spend 6 years reverse engineering and still not getting much out of it

This is part of the reason I can't get in to reverse engineering. It takes an incredible amount of time to get a little done when in the same time you probably could have written your own camera firmware. I do remember seeing an open source camera but it was a really high end one and very expensive.

> I do remember seeing an open source camera but it was a really high end one and very expensive.

Might be AXIOM from the Apertus project: https://www.apertus.org/axiom

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