[HN Gopher] Anonymous has hacked Russian CCTV and published the ...
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Anonymous has hacked Russian CCTV and published the feeds online
Author : simonswords82
Score : 31 points
Date : 2022-03-17 18:35 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (behindenemylines.live)
(TXT) w3m dump (behindenemylines.live)
| badrabbit wrote:
| Interesting techniques. If I were betting I would bet a good
| amount the CIA has people working with Anonymous (clandestine of
| course, not the NSA). Impact with plausible deniability.
| kbelder wrote:
| Sure, but if they're 'clandestinely working with anonymous'
| then they just _are_ part of anonymous, as that 's the only
| membership criteria.
| usednet wrote:
| The CIA has already arrested or scooped up pretty much every
| valuable member within Anonymous, Lulzsec, Lizard Squad, etc.
| What's left is script kiddies like this who pretend that
| accessing unsecured CCTV is some major breach.
| dragonwriter wrote:
| > The CIA has already arrested
|
| The CIA might kidnap people, but arrest is a more law-bound
| process that they don't really engage in, except their in-
| house police force that handles things like trespassing at
| CIA HQ.
|
| US federal national security related arrests are mostly FBI.
| csmattryder wrote:
| > Anonymous has hacked Russian CCTV
|
| What's to bet that this is scraped from Shodan? Unprotected or
| default credentialed IP cameras litter the site.
|
| Probably not too much work to match the host IP to Russia with
| geolocation.
| 5ESS wrote:
| I wonder if hacker news would allow this post if it was American
| cameras being hacked?
| oonerspism wrote:
| FYI: peoples of many, many countries of North and South America
| consider themselves to be "Americans", being from one of the
| "Americas".
|
| When referring to a particular country, for global clarity I
| recommend using that actual country's proper name - e.g. "the
| USA".
| kaishiro wrote:
| Is this actually true? I haven't traveled through South
| America at all, so I'm genuinely curious. If I meet a
| presumed Chilean and ask "Where are you from?", you're
| suggesting they'll respond "I'm American."?
| oonerspism wrote:
| A related article.
|
| https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/06/what-
| do...
| kaishiro wrote:
| So, first off, I appreciate the link - it's a good
| article. But it seems to suggest that there is no firm
| right or wrong in it's usage, but rather the context of
| the usage is what's important. Would you not agree that
| the usage in this context makes it clear that 5ESS is
| referring to "if it was [United Statesian's] cameras
| being hacked"?
| oonerspism wrote:
| Context is subjective, precision is universal. I (perhaps
| wrongly) don't think of HN as a USA-centric site based
| upon USA-centric discussion, so my context expectations
| are set accordingly. But obviously, others may think
| differently.
| forgotpwd16 wrote:
| The world wide version has been posted few times in the past:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=insecam.org
| 5ESS wrote:
| Hosting this link probably makes HN liable to COPA lawsuit
| being as though this site deliberately provides a category
| for cameras of "schools" showing underage children without
| consent.
|
| This is wrong and needs to be taken down.
| forgotpwd16 wrote:
| >showing underage children without consent
|
| But it doesn't right now. Maybe the people behind the site,
| who already removed the houses link for example, will stop
| stream when schools start. If they don't then maybe HN mods
| will remove it.
| 5ESS wrote:
| The very fact that they even included a "Houses" and
| "Schools" section in the first place shows that the site
| operators have maligned ethics. School is obviously out
| of session now at the time of this post but the site was
| in fact exposing underage children earlier in the day.
| duxup wrote:
| Hacking of American companies and government gets covered a lot
| on HN.
| 5ESS wrote:
| You mean stories about American government hacked that don't
| link directly to the files.
|
| Infact I remember last year when the XP Source leaked I was
| the first to post it here and it was almost immediately taken
| down. So actually, you're wrong. HN does take down hacked
| data from American companies all the time and I know this
| from first hand experience.
| duxup wrote:
| I don't know what story you're talking about but pretty
| sure the 'leaked tank manuals' stories all linked to
| stories with the files.
| gruez wrote:
| Probably? I remember seeing those sites that list open VNC
| instances on hn, which is pretty similar.
| spacemanmatt wrote:
| Yeah, it would sure be weird if HN showed favoritism toward its
| host country.
| squarefoot wrote:
| A real challenge would be to hack electronic billboards along the
| streets in big Russian cities, adding images/videos from war and
| Russian captions. I'm sure Anonymous already thought of that; if
| it's doable they will find a way.
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