Edit: Only 2 of these were actually installed.
…these cameras contain a hardcoded list of Russian phone numbers, which can be used to open a backdoor. An SMS from one of these numbers can open shell and network access.
…the web management portal can be accessed, exposing live streams, by anyone with the camera IP.
Reports also suggest that pressure from the opposition political party in Slovakia led to the NBU investigations. The current government of the country, led by populist Robert Fico, initially denied reports that the cameras were of Russian origin and rebuffed any security concerns. Fico has what some would describe as a pro-Russia tilt, but you can read more about that elsewhere, if you are interested.
Does make you wonder about all those Flock Cameras going up in the US and Europe.
I wonder how the public would respond if they believed the cameras were accessible by the nefarious Russians or the insidious Chinese?
Benn Jordan exposed their utter cybersecurity failure. His videos are in great part responsible for why the deflock movement took off.
Or the fascist US, which they very likely are.
They are accessible by the Russians. They’re accessible from Joe Smoe, as evidenced by Benn Jordan. The cameras don’t discriminate in their discrimination and securities.
I remember seeing articles that there are/were security vulnerabilities that went unpatched.
Since the american government is already abusing them, there’s less of a conversation about how foreign governments might abuse them
Reminds me of Flock in the US. They claim to have no access to outside users when requested, and yet in Denver they kept them up and running and only took them down when bagged so the data would be useless to other users. I feel like at some point we’re going to find the justice department or something like Palantir had unlimited access to the whole network the entire time.
The Liberals I argued with the other day promise me this was physically impossible and that any objection to these cameras just means you want to speed and run red lights. Turns out leftists were right again
Maybe it would be a good idea to spread the rumor that the Russian and china were using flock cameras to help Iran plan a terror attack. But that would be so wrong….
Someone is going to Die Hard 4 someone else eventually. In fact, didn’t Russia knock a bunch of Ukrainian millitary communications satellites off before they invaded?
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260730-satellite-killers-what-a-war-in-space-might-look-like
