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My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page

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Re: My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page

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how did "same MAC" lead to "access to everything"? Was the website's security based on MAC, which presumably is supplied by the client? If so, I guess.. typical IoT.

buy any dongle that sells for under $100 on amazon. they all have the same mac, and come with 'bespoke' apps to let you do things to your car. those apps are all thin wrappers on code widely shared; they use the MAC of the dongle as the keystone for ID. Short story: buy one cheap dongle on Amazon, dump the MAC (00:11:22:AA:BB:CC IIRC; it's been 15 years since I cared) and you have auth to all of the apps everywhere.…

Amazing! I have the same MAC address on my luggage!

Re: My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page

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I do know of at least one company who has black-holed the entire DoD ip space and are using it for internal space, which is why I gave a speculation warning... it's really strange regardless.

there's a couple subnets I (ab)use in the DOD IP space for my home network knowing they'd never put them on the open internet. it's also fun to throw logging for a loop if someone digs. 22.0.0.0/8 - it's basically free real estate!

the entirety of 10/8 and 172.16/12 and 192.168/16 wasn't large enough for your house?

Re: My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page

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I bought some ambient room lighting recently. You cannot control them without a proprietary app. This bugged me ... so I grabbed an APK from the Google store, unpacked it, and found essentially keys to the kingdom: api keys for the backend, api keys for shopify, etc. Haven't done anything with this knowledge yet.

There's a lot of public keys that don't give you any special access, unless the dev is really bad.

Anyone who cares about security will be using App Attest or the Google store equivalent.

Re: My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page

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The US Department of War IP adresses baked into the firmware is the bigger story here. Note to self: never buy a Korean security product.

I do know of at least one company who has black-holed the entire DoD ip space and are using it for internal space, which is why I gave a speculation warning... it's really strange regardless.

I recently troubleshot an installation for someone where at some point in the past they'd picked 1.1.1.0/24 as their address range because "all that 192 stuff was silly and too complicated".

You know, I'm not sure I can explain how I feel about this properly without waving the shotgun around.

Re: My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page

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there's a couple subnets I (ab)use in the DOD IP space for my home network knowing they'd never put them on the open internet. it's also fun to throw logging for a loop if someone digs. 22.0.0.0/8 - it's basically free real estate!

the entirety of 10/8 and 172.16/12 and 192.168/16 wasn't large enough for your house?

i deal with a lot of nerds that are all interconnected with one another and nobody can agree on a common subnet for their houses when we all decide to exchange routes internally. ;)

Re: My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page

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buy any dongle that sells for under $100 on amazon. they all have the same mac, and come with 'bespoke' apps to let you do things to your car. those apps are all thin wrappers on code widely shared; they use the MAC of the dongle as the keystone for ID. Short story: buy one cheap dongle on Amazon, dump the MAC (00:11:22:AA:BB:CC IIRC; it's been 15 years since I cared) and you have auth to all of the apps everywhere.…

Amazing! I have the same MAC address on my luggage!

I made things easier by setting the permission action link on all my nuclear weapons to zero

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=permissio...

Re: My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page

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there's a couple subnets I (ab)use in the DOD IP space for my home network knowing they'd never put them on the open internet. it's also fun to throw logging for a loop if someone digs. 22.0.0.0/8 - it's basically free real estate!

the entirety of 10/8 and 172.16/12 and 192.168/16 wasn't large enough for your house?

I work for a large organisation that has various blocks scattered around 10./8, some with highish values for the second octet and some with lowish values, so say 10.129.0.x/24 and 10.3.0.x/24 to pick just two out of a couple of thousand.

But one of our vendor networks uses 10.32.x.x/32 for various radio gateways, and the radios themselves all locally expose (this is where I give away too big a clue as to what I do) 10.0.0.101 as a management address that emits important link status data.

So you can imagine what a godawful bùrach everyone's routing tables are.

Re: My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page

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how did "same MAC" lead to "access to everything"? Was the website's security based on MAC, which presumably is supplied by the client? If so, I guess.. typical IoT.

buy any dongle that sells for under $100 on amazon. they all have the same mac, and come with 'bespoke' apps to let you do things to your car. those apps are all thin wrappers on code widely shared; they use the MAC of the dongle as the keystone for ID. Short story: buy one cheap dongle on Amazon, dump the MAC (00:11:22:AA:BB:CC IIRC; it's been 15 years since I cared) and you have auth to all of the apps everywhere.…

I bought 3 from 3 different vendors and they all have totally different Mac addresses.

Internally they're all Bluetooth to serial chips, and another pic16xxxx chip which does serial to canbus.

I guess the Bluetooth serial chips probably have programmable Mac addresses, but equally they normally ship with a globally default one unless you flash a different one onto it.

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