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Sinaloa cartel hacked security cameras to track and kill FBI informants, US says (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 61 points 5 months ago (1 children)

“hacked” or just used the FBI’s own backdoors?

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Did the FBI just leave the password as Password1234!, fairly obvious security vulnerability having the cameras operate over normal IP.

[–] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's the FBI, they're not that careless. It's Fbi1234!

[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

All I see is ********

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Hey, maybe they use a second ! to improve security immensely.