Hackers break into thousands of security cameras, exposing Tesla, jail, hospital

Re:Hackers break into thousands of security cameras, exposin... by philjohn on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @07:08AM (#26410380)

Another take on this - I have google nest outdoor cameras. Recently, a car park company tried to claim I was in a car park for 7 hours. In reality, I had gone earlier in the day, come back home, and then gone back hours later - but their ANPR system must have had a glitch.

I was able to send them links to the video clips on the Nest site, with embedded timestamps.

If this was a local system there would be no way to prove I hadn't just faked the timestamps.

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Re:Hackers break into thousands of security cameras, exposin... by mattacular on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @07:12AM (#26410402)

You not having to pay an unfair fee for parking one time hardly seems like a good tradeoff for massive surveillance overreach by truly incompetent companies but maybe that was one really expensive lot or something

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Re:Hackers break into thousands of security cameras, exposin... by listenallyall on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @07:27AM (#26410522)

>> no way to prove I hadn't just faked the timestamps.

Showing a ticket? Parking lots have been using them pretty successfully for 50+ years

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Re:Hackers break into thousands of security cameras, exposin... by philjohn on Friday March 12, 2021 @03:33PM (#26440545)

Not in the UK - most free parking for shopping centres use ANPR cameras so that people who are going there for a few hours can do so, but people trying to be cheeky and park there all day to go elsewhere can't.

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