How long until these get taken down?
The links and discussion or the cameras?
Redditor finds unsecured surveillance cameras seemingly placed by US government
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#52Re: Redditor finds unsecured surveillance cameras seemingly placed by US government
#53from the webpage [http://ipsurvconcepts.com/ ] source
" 3030 Briana Ct.NW, Salem, OR 97304 (503) 932-6899 "
also check these out:
https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=19005
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https://hu.cybo.com/US-kapcsolat/ip-surveillance-concepts-ll...
Re: Redditor finds unsecured surveillance cameras seemingly placed by US government
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a practical matter I'm not worried about clicking a link that's been clicked tens of thousands of times today. There's enough ambiguous laws they could likely come after anyone who accesses it if they wanted but given the facts of the situation I doubt they'd be able to make anything stick and it would be a giant PR snafu.
I believe there is precedent that you’re allowed to enter any computer system until you’re specifically warned. It’s a bit like traveling through open land, you can’t get in trouble for trespassing until you’ve been warned that you’re entering private property. IANAL.
Absolutely untrue. In the US, the law is written such that you may only legally access a system that you own or have explicit authorization from the owner to access. It mirrors common law where you're not generally allowed to enter someone else's home even if they leave the door unlocked.
You can, of course (and plenty of people do), debate the specific application of the word, "access" in the context of computer networks.
Re: Redditor finds unsecured surveillance cameras seemingly placed by US government
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a practical matter I'm not worried about clicking a link that's been clicked tens of thousands of times today. There's enough ambiguous laws they could likely come after anyone who accesses it if they wanted but given the facts of the situation I doubt they'd be able to make anything stick and it would be a giant PR snafu.
I believe there is precedent that you’re allowed to enter any computer system until you’re specifically warned. It’s a bit like traveling through open land, you can’t get in trouble for trespassing until you’ve been warned that you’re entering private property. IANAL.
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Re: Redditor finds unsecured surveillance cameras seemingly placed by US government
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think people have internalized the fact that the US gov has surveillance drones in holding patterns over most US metropolitan areas. Every time I've seen someone poke around one of those persistence ADSB/radar maps, they have gone through the stages of discovery: "What are those circles?" "Surveillance drones." "Haha, no, really, what are they? Planes circling the airport?" "No, that (points to thin circle) i…
Have an example of this? Would be interesting to see it.
There are twitter bot accounts that post live when they detect aircraft flying in circles:
@SkyCirclesSF @SkyCirclesLA @SkyCirclesDC
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Play around with one and you'll see quickly that these are designed for remote surveillance. Traffic / weather cameras don't have telephoto lenses, motorized 3 axis control or high-quality sensors.
You just made up every aspect of that statement. Caltrans traffic cameras are all variable telephoto cameras on pan/tilt/zoom rigs. Many weather cameras even allow random web visitors to control the PTZ for a minute or two.
I've never seen a traffic camera that could make out a license plate from 2 blocks away.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
This isn't about drones, but here is an article from last year about the DoD using surveillance balloons that use radar from 65,000 ft to generate high-res images of the ground: https://www.businessinsider.com/us-government-testing-survei...
It's so funny how you can whip up conspiracy theories just by adding superfluous adjectives. Instead of just saying "radar" you say "wireless radar device", as if prior radars used wires, and then you say it creates "high-resolution images using radio pulses", as if this did not apply to every radar ever built. We have been using aircraft to track vehicles since the invention of aircraft. The people and their governm…
We shouldn't expect the centuries old philosophical/legal/procedural balance we've crafted between investigatory powers and personal rights to remain valid and correct in the face of a 99.999% decrease in the cost of surveillance and corresponding explosion in scope.
Naturally, authorities didn't object to the technological expansion of their power. It's up to us to figure out if/when/how to push back. Step zero is admitting that it actually happened, admitting that we should reset our heuristics, and calling out the ludicrous argument "this is how it's always been," because, well it isn't.
Re: Redditor finds unsecured surveillance cameras seemingly placed by US government
#59Inside one of the cameras: "Due to its sensitive nature, the information contained on this website is restricted to law enforcement professionals and government agencies only. For access contact us at 503-932-6899 or email us at info@ipsurvconcepts.com" http://ipsurvconcepts.com/ Good job fellas.
The website appears to be compromised. It's hosting and redirecting to webstores/spam/porn/etc. It seems an enterprising agent decided to start building and selling his own covert camera boxes but I wonder how old these things are now. Perhaps they've been forgotten?
The website doesn't appear to be compromised or registration expired to me. When I visited the site and presented a boring old chrome on mac useragent I got the following page back.
https://i.postimg.cc/D0GxnRdY/Screen-Shot-2020-05-13-at-1-44...
When I followed the link to the login page I got an error trace.
Re: Redditor finds unsecured surveillance cameras seemingly placed by US government
#60Inside one of the cameras: "Due to its sensitive nature, the information contained on this website is restricted to law enforcement professionals and government agencies only. For access contact us at 503-932-6899 or email us at info@ipsurvconcepts.com" http://ipsurvconcepts.com/ Good job fellas.
couldn't be bothered to configure HTTPS on their web server properly.