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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.

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[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

There are now plenty of flock cameras taken down. I wonder if someone is being able to extract the firmware from one of those and start to reverse engineering it to see what's doing and what can do.

[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

Many adjacent videos to what you're proposing. This guy is a legend. https://youtube.com/@bennjordan

[–] Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I believe this is the reason for some of the data center buildout, not AI but massive amounts of storage to store data long term. AI might layer be used to edit data to manufacture evidence.

That's why I wear my tinfoil hat down low to obscure my face.

[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

Well hard drives are brutally expensive now too, but I think Nvidia wouldn't be the richest company in the history of the world if the expansion wasn't all based on compute.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

palantir, MS, google certaintly does already. palantir likely has first access.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago

They both certainly do, that’s not even a question in my mind. There’s no other reason you build a “disruptive” surveillance camera system and guerrilla-install them even in places that had no contract, other than to give eyes to the intelligence industrial nightmare that is addicted to total control of all humans everywhere

As if they’d bother to bring peace if they ever accomplished this