South Korean Man Arrested for Hacking 400,000 Apartment Cameras
This is why I don’t have cameras inside of my house, they are just too easy to hack:
A hacker in his 30s was arrested on charges of infiltrating built-in home cameras at over 600 different apartment complexes and distributing recorded footage, police said Tuesday.
In South Korea, it is common for internet-connected home security devices with cameras to be installed in apartment complexes. A wall-pad device, which is attached to the wall, can activate other devices inside the house.
The hacker, only identified by his surname Lee, is under suspicion of hacking wall-pad devices of more than 400,000 households in 638 different apartment complexes between August and November of last year, according to the National Police Agency (NPA).
Yonhap
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Saw this news a few days ago.
Fuck the Internet of Things.
Why is this a crime?
Amazon and Google and Samsung are doing the same thing.
Oh… I see.
It is because the user casually checked a box allowing the multinationals to do God-knows-what while the hacker, only identified by his surname Lee, did not.
In reality, neither did Amazon, Google, or Samsung really get any sort of conscent before you lapped up the service you thought was actually free… because NONE of you have ever actually read a EULA… which is pretty much how most of you live all of your lives.
Kinda like handing a girl a piece of paper that says, “By accepting this paper, you give full consent to be three-holed by me and two of my best friends”.
Hmmm… i just thought of a way to make this Christmas have a bit more holiday cheer.
…at least for me and my two Nigerian friends.
Now I know nothing about hacking random cameras but I would guess, unless you are targeting a specific person through a specific camera, you are going to spend a great deal of your precious life watching fat ajuma cook kimchee soup in 1080p.
If this gets you off, google “war drive”. Install the software on your android car stereo or phone and drive around the city. It will automatically collect all the cameras you come in range to. Then google “wifi camera default password list”.
You will have more than enough entertainment if you get off to kids running around and ajushi watching hours of TV holding a cup of soju
Protip: If watching others is your thing, just go to a love motel and install a pinhole camera wired to power.
There are several ways to find these with cheap equipment and i find one now and then.
Keep that in mind if you are not proud of what you do with your Nigerian boyfriend.
Somebody is fapping to you.
Which is why I don’t take the camera until checkout time.
It’s not like it’s a secret, either…
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=uart+hacking