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Josh Mitchell's Defcon presentation analyzes the security of five popular brands of police bodycams (Vievu, Patrol Eyes, Fire Cam, Digital Ally, and CeeSc) and reveals that they are universally terrible, though the Digital Ally models are the least bad of the batch, as Wired's Lily Hay Newman reports.
All the devices use predictable network addresses that can be used to remotely sense and identify the cameras when they switch on. Attackers could pinpoint intense police activity by watching for groups of cameras that all switch on at the same place and time.
None of the devices use code-signing, making them typical of garbagey Internet of Shit devices. That means that attackers can slip arbitrary code into them. And none of them cryptographically sign the video they take, which would be a relatively strong way of detecting tampering by police officers, their departments, or criminals.
Source: Boing Boing
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 17 2018, @03:57PM (3 children)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 17 2018, @04:00PM
Better than anything you've ever written.
(Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Friday August 17 2018, @05:41PM
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday August 17 2018, @06:46PM
Read it on Wired [wired.com] then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford