Re:Filmmakers Ask Nikon and Canon to Sell Encrypted Cameras
by dghughes on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @01:13PM
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They were probably using Eye-Fi SD cards. Didn't the cards send your data through a third-party server? I think they cards are now obsolete or unsupported.
Re:Filmmakers Ask Nikon and Canon to Sell Encrypted Cameras
by bri3d on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @01:57PM
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Transcend make WiFi SD cards as well, which support direct connection, run Linux, and are rootable to do cool things like upload files via FTP to a user-controlled server: https://github.com/alejandroliu/sdwifi
Re:Filmmakers Ask Nikon and Canon to Sell Encrypted Cameras
by burkaman on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @01:37PM
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Yeah, Eye-Fi cards are supposed to work with an app on your laptop or phone that uploads pictures to their servers. You can run your own server to pose as the app and intercept the pictures, though.
Re:Filmmakers Ask Nikon and Canon to Sell Encrypted Cameras
by vidarh on Thursday December 15, 2016 @11:09AM
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I don't know what specifically they used, but I believe it was before Eye-Fi
Re:Filmmakers Ask Nikon and Canon to Sell Encrypted Cameras
by jfindley on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @10:27AM
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Yeah, though it's often easier to expense assets than add more salaries, which is why I wonder if some sort of auto-wifi upload, which can be supplemented by a satphone <-> wifi bridge if required, might be more of a realistic proposition for warzone journos than an extra person hiding somewhere in the back of the convoy. And of course, these days, public wifi is much more widely accessible in many parts of the world, so it's only in the most remote or hostile environments that you'd need this.
Re:Filmmakers Ask Nikon and Canon to Sell Encrypted Cameras
by toyg on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @11:17AM
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> only in the most remote or hostile environments
Aka "the overwhelming majority of the world". Dude, you struggle to get decent 4G in the UK outside big cities...
I do agree that the "immediate background upload" model is superior to encryption; it's also definitely harder from a logistic perspective. One feature does not exclude the other though -- in fact, uploading an already encrypted stream would be highly preferable in order to thwart interception (which is a massive problem everywhere, including patriot-act US and snoopers-charter UK).
Said person would either have internet access or suitable storage and decent odds of getting away without interference if police decided to confiscate or destroy cameras.
It's not hard to get some extra protection if you have the funds. A bigger issue is probably that a lot of the time even people operating in warzones often operate on shoestring budgets with little certainty as to whether or not they'll manage to sell their stories. Adding extra tech or a second person hiding in the distance isn't necessarily economically viable for a lot of people.