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- videos@lemmy.world
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- videos@lemmy.world
This must not be allowed to continue! I just do not have the words for this.
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This must not be allowed to continue! I just do not have the words for this.
Find your local Flock camera installations: https://deflock.me/
Lot of mixed feelings from this video. Author doesn’t seem to know you can also do the exact same thing with any other HikVision camera too. I was pulling (at least one) month-old feeds back in July from generic cameras using default credentials. Definitely seems like a configuration issue to not require any at all. Given the sheer amount of these (there’s a lot in my area), why could the author only find 60 feeds? Also none of these are responding to HTTP requests anymore as I have tried all links from his shodan query.
There’s a huge difference between someone putting a webcam on their house for personal security and an AI driven face tracking camera that purposefully records every person that wanders into its field of vision being setup in a public park and on every street corner in the country.
The author does know - I guarantee it. The author wasn’t claiming that this is an unique issue to Flock cameras, but rather that the folks behind the Flock cameras are negligent and creating an unsafe environment (among orher things)
Are HikVision cameras being used to surveil people on a level never before seen in this country? Serious question, I truly don’t know…
It’s all well and good to prove someone wrong, and it seems you’ve done this with only one of his arguments but only partially. It seems a safe argument that security ought to be default for something that gets placed anywhere and everywhere. He should never have been able to make that video due to the high quality of the security of the devices.
This is a much wider issue. So many people leave the default password on devices. I once installed an automatic gate with a pushbutton keypad at an airport and they wanted me to leave the default password of 0000 because it was easy to remember. I argued with them for 10 min, but they had the programming instructions and the airport manager straight up told me he’d just do it himself after I left, so I imagine that’s what happened because he seemed pretty thick and didn’t think that was an issue at all.