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posted by martyb on Tuesday November 21 2017, @09:53AM   Printer-friendly
from the not-the-bugs-getting-squashed dept.

A bug bounty hunter shared evidence; DJI called him a hacker and threatened with CFAA.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/dji-left-private-keys-for-ssl-cloud-storage-in-public-view-and-exposed-customers/

DJI, the Chinese company that manufactures the popular Phantom brand of consumer quadcopter drones, was informed in September that developers had left the private keys for both the "wildcard" certificate for all the company's Web domains and the keys to cloud storage accounts on Amazon Web Services exposed publicly in code posted to GitHub. Using the data, researcher Kevin Finisterre was able to access flight log data and images uploaded by DJI customers, including photos of government IDs, drivers licenses, and passports. Some of the data included flight logs from accounts associated with government and military domains.

Finisterre found the security error after beginning to probe DJI's systems under DJI's bug bounty program, which was announced in August. But as Finisterre worked to document the bug with the company, he got increasing pushback—including a threat of charges under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). DJI refused to offer any protection against legal action in the company's "final offer" for the data. So Finisterre dropped out of the program and published his findings publicly yesterday, along with a narrative entitled, "Why I walked away from $30,000 of DJI bounty money."

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday November 21 2017, @03:36PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday November 21 2017, @03:36PM (#599694) Journal

    > is if I had cisfemale privilege

    Learn chmod.

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  • (Score: 2) by AssCork on Tuesday November 21 2017, @06:48PM

    by AssCork (6255) on Tuesday November 21 2017, @06:48PM (#599783) Journal

    Learn chmod.

    root# chmod 0666 /dev/gender
    root# ls -l /dev/gender
    -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Nov 21 18:46 /dev/gender
    root#

    Hm, so anybody can just come in and write to the device? Sounds legit.

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