The router manufacturer's website looks familiar, but I can't quite put my finger on it: http://utility.com/
Hacker Pwns Police Cruiser and Lives to Tell the Tale
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#12This is always good for a laugh: https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=intitle%3A%22Live+View... https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=inurl%3Aview%2Fview.sh... Never turned up anything as fun as a policecar though.
Found a live one of a busy intersection. Started panning around, then the camera moved on its own, and went black - right before I caught a brief image of a hand grabbing it.
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#13What troubles me about this story is not so much the lack of security protecting the camera's and the DVR, but the fact the police department was wasting scarce IPv4 addresses on laptops and security cameras. These devices should have been on a private internal network with private IP addresses. Just saying. :)
So it would give us another month or two until some LIR would exhaust their IPv4 pool?
All this "save the scarce IPv4" thing is just a procrastination to delay the inevitable. While the transition is painful, we just can't keep IPv4 forever. Numbers are cruel sometimes.
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#14What troubles me about this story is not so much the lack of security protecting the camera's and the DVR, but the fact the police department was wasting scarce IPv4 addresses on laptops and security cameras. These devices should have been on a private internal network with private IP addresses. Just saying. :)
So it would give us another month or two until some LIR would exhaust their IPv4 pool? All this "save the scarce IPv4" thing is just a procrastination to delay the inevitable. While the transition is painful, we just can't keep IPv4 forever. Numbers are cruel sometimes.
For sure we should transition.
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#15"The ability for civilians to secretly spy on officers responding to calls could have serious consequences for their safety."
These are public employees performing a public duty. Unless there are extenuating circumstances, maybe a SWAT raid or something, the public should have access to this data to ensure that public employees are serving the public good. At the bare minimum it should be available within hours of it's creation.
Routine traffic stops? Police abusing their powers? This should definitely be made available to the public if it is recorded. Justice must not only be done, it must be seen to be done.
We have the technology to go big brother on government, why are we letting them go big brother on us?
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#16Title seems a bit disingenuous; a professional pen tester getting a live feed from a camera on a police car does not constitute a "hacker pwning a police cruiser", and whether he would live to tell the tale doesn't appear to have been in doubt.
If I write a blog post about going to the grocer's, should I post it to HN with the title "hacker infiltrates local business, lives to tell the tale"?
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#17Title seems a bit disingenuous; a professional pen tester getting a live feed from a camera on a police car does not constitute a "hacker pwning a police cruiser", and whether he would live to tell the tale doesn't appear to have been in doubt. If I write a blog post about going to the grocer's, should I post it to HN with the title "hacker infiltrates local business, lives to tell the tale"?
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#18The router manufacturer's website looks familiar, but I can't quite put my finger on it: http://utility.com/
Hmmm... Apple.com before the shiny black bar?
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#19Admittedly, I haven't read the Chicago Manual of Style in a while, but when did it become acceptable to use "pwn" in a headline without quotes?
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#20"The ability for civilians to secretly spy on officers responding to calls could have serious consequences for their safety." These are public employees performing a public duty. Unless there are extenuating circumstances, maybe a SWAT raid or something, the public should have access to this data to ensure that public employees are serving the public good. At the bare minimum it should be available within hours of it…
Maybe I'm mistaken, but I detect a note of disparagement toward our civil servants who have signed up for a job that puts them in harm's way. Maybe, as a military veteran, I'm over-sensitive/biased, but the tone is unnecessary to your point.
That said, I totally agree, and the thought occurred to me, too, while reading tfa that these recordings should be publicly available if not broadcast in real time.