badatnames4 hours ago
Worthy thread to ask: is there such a thing as a white label IP camera (or similar) with a supported open firmware? Not asking for open source, but something close to plug and play that nonetheless has a way of stripping the rootfs as desired for bespoke use in a manufacturer-supported way.
I have looked around before but I only found genuinely dev-oriented kits that weren't even in a shell, and crazy priced.
edit: seems there are some options now (or I missed them before), e.g. https://www.goodcam.io/#for-independent-developers
numpad022 minutes ago
Not exactly what you have asked for, but ESP32 based M5Stack and Seeed Xiao modules might fit the bill. They are not so expensive, are Linux-free, and there's no report so far of secret ping home features in the SDK.
tehlike2 hours ago
You can get close.... I guess...
Some cameras do support thingino, so you can override their firmware. Then there's this: https://openipc.org/supported-hardware/featured
makefuan hour ago
There is also https://thingino.com/ which has a clear set of supported cameras. The installation is straight forward if you choose a cam with SD-Card flashing support. I upgraded two of the Sonoff Slim Gen2 without any issues.
nozzlegear3 hours ago
Seems like the shop is broken?
> Stránka nenalezena
> There's been a glitch...
> We're not quite sure what went wrong. You can go back, or try looking on our homepage.
badatnames2 hours ago
Huh, it was working an hour ago. The outdoor 8MP variant was around the 85 euro mark.
cenamus2 hours ago
Czech for 'page not found'
em3rgent0rdr3 hours ago
ESP32-CAM
LastTrain2 hours ago
I so want these to be a viable solution but man my experience so far is that it can barely be made to work and only in the most favorable environments. Compare that to the blink cameras I used to run outside where it occasionally went below -20F and they still went over a year on a couple batteries.
TaLiTr2 hours ago
I wish... The best I've found is https://openipc.org/ which is a very manufacturer unsupported way of reflashing certain chips with open-source firmware. It seems very fiddly as only certain SoCs are supported and good luck finding out if a specific Chinese camera has one.
xiconfjs3 hours ago
Thank you. Ordered one to play around and see if this is a viable alternative.
grommz7 hours ago
The US Department of War IP adresses baked into the firmware is the bigger story here. Note to self: never buy a Korean security product.
hhhop7 hours ago
I do know of at least one company who has black-holed the entire DoD ip space and are using it for internal space, which is why I gave a speculation warning... it's really strange regardless.
anonymars5 hours ago
Interesting -- seems like the side effect would be to basically prevent use by the DoD but not really anyone else. Bonus points if they sell a "government" version for higher cost
accrual5 hours ago
I also know of a company who does this. The reason in their case is they act as a network concentrator, bridging hundreds of client IP spaces, so this helps them avoid conflicts with their own space without having to NAT constantly. There is still a lot of NAT for the more common ranges.
inigyouan hour ago
If they converted to IPv6, they could easily have a globally unique address space. Real globally unique, not probabilistic.
ec1096854 hours ago
Yeah I wanted to do that at previous company. Got talked out of it, but it's nice have all those ips available.
makr174 hours ago
I used to work somewhere that did that. Several of us in Eng pointed out that it was likely impossible to sell anything to DoD personnel since the reply would route internally. But I don't know if it was _fixed_, was still an issue when I left.
ErroneousBosh6 hours ago
I recently troubleshot an installation for someone where at some point in the past they'd picked 1.1.1.0/24 as their address range because "all that 192 stuff was silly and too complicated".
You know, I'm not sure I can explain how I feel about this properly without waving the shotgun around.
mr_mitm4 hours ago
I had a gig for a contractor of some banks once. One of the banks was using 5.0.0.0/8 internally. I asked the guy if it doesn't lead to issues. All the time, he said. When they first came in, they just assigned each bank 1.0.0.0/8, 2.0.0.0/8, and so on. Number ten feels really lucky, he said.
inigyouan hour ago
As long as it's strictly separated from the internet it works. The Internetwork Packet Exchange, used for cellular roaming, is a parallel global internet with its own addresses and allocation policies.
prerokan hour ago
This story is so silly it must be true. Thank you, made me laugh out loud.
tracker14 hours ago
LOL, they should have just used a 10.x space instead if they wanted slightly simpler numbers.
On the shotgun, or adjacent, I do tend to prefer ammo classes for my nets... 10.22.x.y, where x may be 1, 38, 45, etc. Allows for site to site vpn with friends/family a bit easier to remember.
jabart5 hours ago
Didn't AT&T do that and Cloudflare made them change it when they aquired that space?
tracker14 hours ago
I got a "home" Verizon box, and the first thing I did was change the DNS setting... 1.1.1.1 wasn't working, and I wanted to change it back to default. Verizon's tech support are idiots... they literally wouldn't give me the default DNS IP because they were concerned about security.
Google's DNS worked fine, but Cloudflare's didn't. No idea if they ever fixed it... I'm using it as a backup for my main connection, eventually I'll setup autofailover on my router (OpnSense). For now, I just swap the cables.
ethin38 minutes ago
My ISP won't give me the router credentials because they claim that that would somehow risk their network interconnectivity or something. I have no idea how this makes any sense since a router (shouldn't) give me that level of access, but maybe I'm missing something?
hackernudes4 hours ago
Quantenna used 1.1.1.1 for RPC to their wifi chip in their SDK by default. Should not have been exposed to global routing but of course people screwed that up.
https://medium.com/@mrtcve/atts-misuse-of-cloudflare-dns-ip-...
Melatonican hour ago
Or they didn't want you to know the IP(s) so you could easily block it
Sounds like they blocked Cloudflare but couldn't block Google
ErroneousBosh4 hours ago
Funny enough their problems really began in earnest about seven or eight years ago...
cyanydeez6 hours ago
Sounds like someones on the path to sovereign citizenship. I can't wait for our cyber-sovereign citizenships who deny various IP ranges coming from the government's domain naming system.
inigyou6 hours ago
Yet another thing ipv6 solves. Yeah you can do the officially supported fdXX:XXXX:XXXX:... but you can also just pick something like 1::1 and it's unlikely to conflict with the current global range.
If you're gonna do that, though, it's better if you use fd00:... or one of the other assigned ranges so it's still in the standard range. OSes use this as a heuristic for source address selection.
kowbell6 hours ago
"all that 192 stuff was silly and too complicated... but this fd00: stuff is easy peasy!"
Multicomp2 hours ago
Agreed 100%! I know there's tough challenges to making this reality, but if https://serverspace.io/about/blog/ipv8-explained-what-we-kno... could be an IRL thing, I would buy company network equipment and use computer OSes that supported this draft standard.
It's a much better compromise and ergonomics to migrate from IPv4 to an IPv4 respecting successor, where IPv6 is just the academic snobbery and utterly alien mental model for not-enough benefits.
For the same reason Unix stuck around and beat up its own successor Plan 9/inferno. That inertia even decades later is the same reason IPv4 still beats IPv6.
IPv8 is more of a linux to unix than a plan 9.
iso16316 hours ago
192.168.0.0/24 -> fd00:0::/64
192.168.1.0/24 -> fd00:1::/64
192.168.2.0/24 -> fd00:2::/64
192.168.240.0/24 -> fd00:240::/64
It's not a great idea, but its no harder.
No need to mess around with setting up DHCP, remembering if your router is top or bottom of the subnet, and if you want 500 devices on a single subnet that's no problem.
Now if you still need ipv4 then yes, ipv6 is stupid as you have double the pain for none of the gain, but if you are ip6 only then its far easier.
tracker14 hours ago
One thing I don't appreciate... Is the nature of NAT protected my internal/home network before... now, I have to actually configure firewall settings etc. to protect IPv6 issued addresses internally.
I know you can just block inbound non-established connections, but it feels like an extra step and complexity. Not to mention, that I really don't understand how IPs are supposed to be provisioned to devices on IPv6. Is there like a 50-100 page book you can recommend "for dummies" on IPv6, that hopefully contains at least a tiny amount of how to configure a common router and/or linux host.
tredre34 hours ago
> Not to mention, that I really don't understand how IPs are supposed to be provisioned to devices on IPv6.
SLAAC is the only way that works across all IPV6 devices. In that mode, the router advertises the prefix and the device assigns its own address (prefix + its mac address).
DHCPv6 exists but is poorly supported. It sucks for people who like assigning IPs individually from an authoritative place (through static dhcp entries on the router). But people like us are "doing it wrong", you see? We must accept that in this brave new worlds an IP means nothing.
tracker13 hours ago
Which doubly sucks in terms of assigning a DNS name to an IP/PC... and/or opening the assignment to less restricted access... feels just problematic to me.
Again, I don't know any of IPv6 enough to use it really right or wrong.
inigyou3 hours ago
And there's always static configuration, useful for servers.
SV_BubbleTime4 hours ago
I doubt any endpoints are entirely ipv6.
So it seems like it helps ISPs and large networks router… but they never had problems with address space running out at the high levels and almost all likely need to support v4 anyhow.
I think it’s been long enough to be honest that ipv6 was a spectacular failure by complicating an already complicated system into something no one actually asked for.
No human said “hey, networking sucks. Please make it much harder at my level!!”.
toast03 hours ago
> I doubt any endpoints are entirely ipv6.
Lte and 5G can be v6 only, usually they also have NAT64 and DNS64 so you can get everywhere, but the less stuff that needs v4, the smaller their nat boxes are.
tracker14 hours ago
I'm largely with you... I would think they'd take the IPv4 block and have a direct/virtual block that just extends it to more addresses... so it could be an IPv4 NAT or IPv6 direct.
like 1.1.1.1/192.168.45.4 ... for a router that understands IPv6, that's the direct route to the sub-network, otherwise it will have to use IPv4, and the subnet route is treated as NAT and otherwise isolated.
To me, that would make more sense... then internal IPv6 might be practically limited to 10. and 102.168. in the nearer term, but adoption would be MUCH simpler in practice, and distribution would mostly already be established, however unfairly, but can then be broken into single addresses and vNext adoption could be that much quicker as a result of piggybacking.
inigyou5 hours ago
you can use 1234 if you want, that's also unused space
Matuzy6 hours ago
> Yet another thing ipv6 solves. ... it's unlikely to conflict with the current global range
I'm not familiar with IPv6's details, could you elaborate on this? To me, this reads like you're saying that IPv6 solves the problem by having low adoption rates rather than an actual function of the protocol.
inigyou5 hours ago
All global IPv6 addresses start with 2. This is by design. Pedantically, 3 is also reserved for global. Some other prefixes are also reserved, like fd for the ULA (local) range.
The point of IPv6 was to make the addresses so long they are easy to manage.
SV_BubbleTime4 hours ago
>The point of IPv6 was to make the addresses so long they are easy to manage.
lol, there is no doubt that had a massive opposite effect. To the point of nearly killing it in terms of willingness to adopt.
tracker14 hours ago
I know that on my hosted server, I never bothered to set it up, because I didn't know how to properly configure or sub-net it. I know it's skill issue, but really feels significantly more complicated and even harder to understand than NAT even.
Not to mention, at home, most of the ads I do see (PiHole) are IPv6 addresses.
DrewADesign4 hours ago
It seems to have absolutely terrible ergonomics as a technology, in nearly every conceivable way.
inigyou3 hours ago
It's literally impossible to avoid long addresses being long or short addresses running out. One of those is a worse problem.
DrewADesign39 minutes ago
The length isn’t the only thing that makes the ergonomics suck. The lack of backwards compatibility sucks. The “you don’t have to use NAT anymore” is great theoretically, but it renders a lot of casual network maintainers mental model of network security obsolete without a clear and simple alternative. The shorthand is not intuitive (though it’s not CIDR-level counterintuitive). Really, there’s way too much about working in IPv6 that’s not intuitive with even very solid IPv4 network knowledge.
So yeah, having to relearn a bunch of basic network knowledge that worked just fine for decades is a PITA, and I’m 100% positive a design process that focused more on the people that need to configure networks could have yielded a much friendlier, and therefore a much easier to adopt standard.
unethical_ban3 hours ago
No network is "smaller" than /64. All end-networks are /64.
Split subnets at four bit chunks.
Allocated networks, like to a home or small office, should be /56 or /60.
Then you have to think about link-local addresses and privacy addresses, and how to hand out IPv6 and configure DNS: SLAAC vs. DHCPv6 or some combination.
I have a rough draft of a beginner document but it's not ready. :)
zrail3 hours ago
(Pedantically) Maximum prefix length of /64 is only required if you want/need SLAAC. If you're assigning static addresses or using DHCPv6 for assignment you can go as small as you want. It's not weird to see /127 for tunnel subnets, for example.
unethical_ban3 hours ago
I didn't want to encourage non-standard behavior, but you are correct. Tunnels are a common use the same way /31s can be used in IPv4.
Going smaller than /64 is against best practice and unnecessary. People coming from IPv4 need to understand that trying to be careful with subnet sizing for purposes of preserving space is not a thing in IPv6 below /64. Maybe if a residential user has a /64 from their crappy ISP settings they'd need to do it, but not in a properly configured scenario and certainly not in enterprise.
inigyou3 hours ago
How many /24s does your organisation have? With IPv6, one block is almost always sufficient.
ErroneousBoshan hour ago
It's mental that my fairly techy-orientated but otherwise pretty standard UK ISP provides me with a /48 as default.
So I have 1.2 million million million million IPv6 addresses available.
That ought to be enough, eh?
ConceptJunkie4 hours ago
The point of IPv6 was to make the addresses so long that we don't run out of them in 20 years or so.
There fixed that for you.
ralph843 hours ago
The problem is NAT solved the same problem more easily and cheaply. It was at the cost of making it difficult for every host to talk directly to every other host, but it turned out most of the people building networks didn't want that feature anyway.
inigyou3 hours ago
We already ran out of ipv4 about 15 years AGO.
64 bits would be enough to avoid run out, but hierarchical allocation would still be a problem. 128 bits is long enough for many levels of hierarchy. (And yes, you can subnet all the bits, not just the first 64)
vitally36436 hours ago
The argument is that IPv6 addresses are UUIDs and any random block is unlikely to collide with any other random address.
It's not about low adoption, it's that there are unimaginably many IPv6 addresses.
...which is a major reason for why it has low adoption
Matuzy5 hours ago
Thanks for the reply. I'm reminded every now and then of the magnitude of the address space in v6. Then I do nothing with that information and slowly lose appreciation for the size again :)
lukan4 hours ago
unethical_ban4 hours ago
Respectfully I don't think they explained it well.
fc00::/7 is for "Unique Local Addresses". Basically, private, non-globally-routable addresses from which you can freely pick space. Kind of like RFC1918. It's deliberately huge and you should only use as much from it as you need. The idea being that if you merge with another organization or connect to them via VPN, it's unlikely your addresses will collide like with RFC 1918.
There's even a website (sites?) to register your ULA space on a volunteer basis to reduce collision chances.
inigyou3 hours ago
If you can't remember 192.168 you definitely can't remember a randomly picked ULA. So just use fd00. It's not any worse than 192.168.
unethical_ban3 hours ago
True, I was thinking more about the allocation discussion than the "easy to remember".
Anyone in IT who allocates 1.1.1.0/24 because 192.168.0.0/24 is hard, should be allocated to trash pickup.
bflesch6 hours ago
This will trip up most SOC workflows in funny ways, and I like it.
IPs having a global distinction between public/private is a convention, but local routing can widely differ.
Same with the "China Cyberattacks" - the guys sitting on top of my outgoing fiber can simulate any IP address they want to me.
freeone30005 hours ago
It’s only a convention in the sense that the IANA is a convention: https://www.iana.org/assignments/iana-ipv4-special-registry/...
192.0.0.0/24, 10/8, 172.16/12, and various other subslices of 192/8 are reserved for local use and are not publicly routable.
kotaKat7 hours ago
there's a couple subnets I (ab)use in the DOD IP space for my home network knowing they'd never put them on the open internet. it's also fun to throw logging for a loop if someone digs.
22.0.0.0/8 - it's basically free real estate!
walrus016 hours ago
the entirety of 10/8 and 172.16/12 and 192.168/16 wasn't large enough for your house?
xoa6 hours ago
>the entirety of 10/8 and 172.16/12 and 192.168/16 wasn't large enough for your house?
Just to chime in agreeing with sibling comments, the issue is when it's not about just your house and you're deep into self-hosted stuff with a lot of different properties and businesses other people's houses all sharing resources. Without a lot of coordination and consideration, which in practice doesn't really happen easily given the adhoc nature such things tend to organically develop out of, and all the random stuff that wants specific addresses at least for setup, it actually gets pretty easy to run into collisions. Allocations typically are definitely inefficient in many respects but also made sense in the context they were first done and of course can be a certain amount of effort to change.
In an ideal world I sorta feel like "IPv6" should have been more along the lines of <12 octet prefix>:<IPv4>, everyone gets a prefix or set of prefixes that they actually own and are consistent worldwide, or at least only change when geographic location changes, and then can just have the entire 32-bit IPv4 space for LAN however they want. Then you only have to care about prefix between LANs and it could all be extremely automated, internally you only need to use something that looks like IPv4 with the network hardware transparently able to handle prefixes for WAN. Backwards compatibility story would be a lot more straight forward too. Oh well.
@kotaKat: that's a great idea and I don't know why I forgot I played with that like 15 years ago. Really handy as a backup space that almost certainly won't collide with any commercial hardware at least.
ErroneousBosh6 hours ago
I work for a large organisation that has various blocks scattered around 10./8, some with highish values for the second octet and some with lowish values, so say 10.129.0.x/24 and 10.3.0.x/24 to pick just two out of a couple of thousand.
But one of our vendor networks uses 10.32.x.x/32 for various radio gateways, and the radios themselves all locally expose (this is where I give away too big a clue as to what I do) 10.0.0.101 as a management address that emits important link status data.
So you can imagine what a godawful bùrach everyone's routing tables are.
kotaKat6 hours ago
i deal with a lot of nerds that are all interconnected with one another and nobody can agree on a common subnet for their houses when we all decide to exchange routes internally. ;)
myself2483 hours ago
I deal with a lot of nerds, but starting in about 2008 we all segmented up the 10.x space and each of us has a /16, with each site we manage having typically a /24 or /22, so nobody overlaps. We can light up tunnels between each other and never have a collision. We have a little internal registry on a private wiki, and it's been serving us well for... oh dear, almost two decades now.
Crucially, we set aside the common 10.1 and 10.10 ranges as nonroutable, so any devices that default into those have to be dealt with before they can live on the wider network.
Newcomers get handed a block and have to renumber, or NAT into it, or whatever, but they cannot emit bogons. At a small scale (first-name basis), this works.
cryptonym6 hours ago
I have seen ISP doing CGNAT on DOD IP space.
webstrand4 hours ago
I also do this, except 7.0.0.0/8 instead. Its great for not conflicting with hotel wifi dhcp.
walrus016 hours ago
> Note to self: never buy a Korean security product.
The Canadian Navy very recently made a major choice and agreed with you
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=hanwha+oc...
lardosaurusrex5 hours ago
just buy stuff you can put your own firmware/os on because it's either just the worst security in the world (aka anything not from china) or, well... china.
and while i currently don't hate china as much as i do US rn (because canadian; sorry) i can also say -- due to being an aforementioned leaflandian -- that due to very personal experience i have zero faith in anything from china that has the ability to connect to any type of network :')
And so yeah at this point if I can't at the very least get a whatever-wrt firmware (preferably a proper linux distro nowadays; not to say the *-wrt firmwares aren't a real OS but, y'know) on the device i just avoid them entirely since, well... it's all i can do at this point because even if there were baked in hardware-based backdoors i as an individual can't do much more than that.
prox5 hours ago
That sounds horrible. I got an old PI4, would it make for a decent router, if at all possible?
myself2483 hours ago
It's not quite ideal hardware due to only having a single NIC, but you can slap a USB NIC on it and make it work, if that's what's handy.
Old thin clients are typically in the same hardware class, and probably cheaper by the time you add the exploding MSRP of a Pi, and a PSU, and a case and heatsink, and maybe some storage that doesn't suck ass. But if you already own the Pi, yeah, go for it.
edwinjman hour ago
The DoWD owns such a large chunk of the IP space, it can very easily be a coincidence
dev_l1x_be6 hours ago
Or Korean IoT products. The ones I was working on had insane approach to security.
RajT884 hours ago
As if domestic products aren't a hot mess of security issues and sloppy engineering. Lol
kingleopold6 hours ago
Note to self: never buy any Korean hardware or software product.
/S
walrus015 hours ago
Note to self, never buy any hardware product, move to a yurt in the woods, start an alpaca ranch, write a manifesto
KPGv23 hours ago
> Department of War
n.b., it's the Department of Defense, just like the Kennedy Center doesn't have Trump's name attached, and the large body of water by Texas is the Gulf of Mexico.
dev_l1x_be6 hours ago
Not surprised, many of these vendors are doing crazy things, insane defaults, broken security, hardcoded values. Security is not a priority, I get that, but at the very least some baseline check would be nice (no hardcoded credentials for starting)
snoman5 hours ago
As they say: in IoT the S stands for security.
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js4ever4 hours ago
ID-IoT-S
folkrav5 hours ago
There’s some irony to security not being a priority for security cameras. Different kind of security I know, but still.
daneel_w5 hours ago
There's also some irony in people happily ignoring that so many of these products live-stream the inside view of their homes and offices to some foreign corporate cloud - and in the case of suspiciously many Chinese security cameras, a state-backed corporation's cloud. Because, wow, it really is convenient.
awakeasleep4 hours ago
How can there be a baseline check when you operate by getting the most inexperienced cheapest person possible to do the work?
gxs2 hours ago
Especially these days there’s really no excuse
Add a skill to your repo that does some basic checks at least, not that hard
tehlike5 hours ago
A rule of thumb, put your cameras on a separate VLAN and never give that vlan internet access.
Least you can do.
RyJones8 hours ago
When I cared, I found out that a lot of OBD-II dongles shipped with the same MAC, which gave you access to everything on a bunch of websites.
You can curse the storm, but the wind will come.
netsharc7 hours ago
how did "same MAC" lead to "access to everything"?
Was the website's security based on MAC, which presumably is supplied by the client? If so, I guess.. typical IoT.
RyJones7 hours ago
buy any dongle that sells for under $100 on amazon. they all have the same mac, and come with 'bespoke' apps to let you do things to your car. those apps are all thin wrappers on code widely shared; they use the MAC of the dongle as the keystone for ID.
Short story: buy one cheap dongle on Amazon, dump the MAC (00:11:22:AA:BB:CC IIRC; it's been 15 years since I cared) and you have auth to all of the apps everywhere.
Reminder: the Bluetooth logo comes, mostly, from self-certification.
andreareina6 hours ago
Amazing! I have the same MAC address on my luggage!
walrus016 hours ago
I made things easier by setting the permission action link on all my nuclear weapons to zero
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=permissio...
tclancy5 hours ago
Remind me to rotate my GitHub tokens.
pak9rabid2 hours ago
00:11:22:33:44:55
londons_explore6 hours ago
I bought 3 from 3 different vendors and they all have totally different Mac addresses.
Internally they're all Bluetooth to serial chips, and another pic16xxxx chip which does serial to canbus.
I guess the Bluetooth serial chips probably have programmable Mac addresses, but equally they normally ship with a globally default one unless you flash a different one onto it.
inigyou6 hours ago
Why do the apps need auth?
17186274403 hours ago
How does this even work? A website doesn't know your MAC, that is only known in your local network.
pak9rabid3 hours ago
Perhaps they should just drop the 'security' from the name and simply call it a camera.
sodapopcan5 hours ago
This blog's misuse of the external link icon irks me.
kyle-rb4 hours ago
The CSS selector they used (`a[href*="://"]::after`) is meant to only target only external links, but assumes any internal links will be using relative paths like `href="/about"`. The problem is that this site uses absolute URLs (`href="https://hhh.hn/about"`) for its nav links, so every link ends up with an icon.
You could fix this by adding an exception to the CSS rule so it skips links starting with your site's name:
a[href*="://"]:not([href^="https://hhh.hn"])::afterAlienRobot4 hours ago
rel="external" solves this.
hhhop4 hours ago
will fix it tomorrow
IshKebab6 hours ago
LLMs have truly killed obfuscation. It only worked previously by making things extremely tedious but AI doesn't care about that.
llm_nerd6 hours ago
And it's worth considering that obfuscation only ever worked against casuals for whom tedious was a bridge too far. Nation state actors and criminal hacker groups, on the other hand, consider the tedious entirely worth it.
phh6 hours ago
Yes, obfuscation was always a matter of cost: how much money do you need to break the protection? LLM just decreased that amount by a lot.
(Yes ok, RSA4096 is technically a matter of cost, you just need an infinite amount of money)
TeMPOraL3 hours ago
All security is always a matter of cost. Clown theater starts once you lose track of it, and start doing security for security's sake.
RE obfuscation and nation states - nation states have finite budgets too, both in terms of resources and attention. They can crack any system at any time, but they can't afford to crack all of the systems all of the time.
jaggederest4 hours ago
The cool thing about cryptographic security is that it's an asymmetric amount of cost for both parties - to encode is cheap, to break is many orders of magnitude harder, unlike obfuscation where the difficulty is approximately symmetrical.
inigyou6 hours ago
Pirates checked Denuvo, once considered the king of DRM.
walrus016 hours ago
> consider the tedious entirely worth it.
Entirely without LLMs, I'm imagining an office of North Korean compsci graduates doing astonishingly tedious tasks, for whom an office job on a basic Linux computer and slightly better diet and nice apartment put them in the top 1-2% of living standard in the country.
p-e-w6 hours ago
On the bright side, even a small local LLM can easily improve garbage code like that.
orbital-decay5 hours ago
I'm 100% confident in hardware companies' ability to make infinitely incompetent software given infinitely smart agents. They do it because they don't care about software, not because they lack tools. No agent can turn them into software companies if they don't want it themselves.
whalesalad6 hours ago
I bought some ambient room lighting recently. You cannot control them without a proprietary app. This bugged me ... so I grabbed an APK from the Google store, unpacked it, and found essentially keys to the kingdom: api keys for the backend, api keys for shopify, etc. Haven't done anything with this knowledge yet.
Ecsta6 hours ago
There's a lot of public keys that don't give you any special access, unless the dev is really bad.
Anyone who cares about security will be using App Attest or the Google store equivalent.
JTbane6 hours ago
>Anyone who cares about security
I have something hilarious to tell you about IoT apps
tclancy5 hours ago
A Venn diagram like a 6th grade boy's graffiti of boobs.
dhosek3 hours ago
Just as a pedantic aside, people often use Venn diagram when they mean Euler diagram. A Venn diagram always has the overlapping circles and use shading or labeling describe the set relation. Euler diagrams let the circles describe the relation so two non intersecting sets in a Venn diagram might share the left circle green, the right blue and leave the intersection blank or grey. An Euler diagram will have two disjoint circles.
sophacles4 hours ago
The "S" in IoT stands for security!
yako210004 hours ago
That one made me giggle!
cute_boi4 hours ago
Most of these companies try to penny pinch and give task to hardware engineer. As a result there are lot of security issues with IOT devices.
CodesInChaos4 hours ago
> Anyone who cares about security will be using App Attest or the Google store equivalent.
Why? I rarely have security objectives where remote attention would help, and it has a huge impact on user freedom. For B2C attestation is just an evil captcha.
tehlike5 hours ago
Another rule of thumb - i know it's not always the best since some products are really nice aesthetically - is to buy only local smart stuff, for example, zigbee/zwave.
petepete4 hours ago
I live by this rule*. Being able to pick up stuff from IKEA that's well supported, well designed and really affordable is a huge advantage.
*almost, I have two things that need an app. My Vaillant boiler and my Yale alarm system. Both apps are terrible, but I have a 10 year warranty on the boiler and my alarm is up to scratch from a home insurance point of view.**
tehlike4 hours ago
Yale alarm? Can you link?
Vailant boiler - I wonder if there's a debug interface you can use. Not knowing specifics of your model, i foudn this: https://github.com/jayme-github/esphome_vaillant
Codex can help probably further heh.
petepete3 hours ago
It's a Yale Sync
https://yalehome.co.uk/yale-sync-hub
It's not really something I want 'home rolled', I just want it to work.
Same goes for the boiler really. If it stops working I can phone Valliant and they'll send someone round to fix it.
dev_l1x_be5 hours ago
In many cases it is bad to publish this info because they might come after you. There used to be a company who shielded the “researcher” from the legal consequences, can’t remember the name though.
fragmede5 hours ago
@stake or L0pht?
inigyou6 hours ago
Everything can be controlled without a proprietary app. Hope you reverse engineer the protocol and publish how to do it.
tehlike5 hours ago
Or claude/codex can.
fragmede5 hours ago
Have you actually tried to do anything with them though? The keys are in there, but may not grant you any real extra access beyond what your user is actually allowed to do via the app.
avgDev5 hours ago
It is still pretty nice, you don't have to install yet another app to do something. People did this with Mazda app as it allowed them to start the car without subscription. They 'fixed' it.
inisirex5 hours ago
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jwithington4 hours ago
I've seen these systems at US defense industry tradeshows so I'm guessing they are in use somewhere.
dare9442 hours ago
> Why would Hanwha Vision need anything remotely related to the DoD? Is it possible that their CI is provided by some centralized team at their parent company Hanwha, where the needs of their sister company Hanwha Aerospace cause the shared platform to have these entries in the CI environment variables? Or maybe because of their other sister company, Hanwha Defense USA, where they make other large scary steel machines
Or... the Department of Warmongers (nee DoD) addresses on the device are evidence of a supply-side attack targeting the DoW and carried out using the aforementioned github admin token.
... I mean, while we're in here speculating about truffles and all.
asveikau3 hours ago
My cameras are analog rather than PoE or IP based, but that's just because I set up the initial iteration of the system a long time ago. The standard now is to give your camera an IP address.
With many IoT type things I block access to the public internet. I think with cameras specifically a lot of people even set it up physically on a different network that can only talk to the NVR.
But tldr, basing the cameras on IP invites some of the things in this article. Anyone deploying these devices needs to think about securing them.
kiddico4 hours ago
I have yet to find a pattern for when the author chooses to capitalize things.
limsungkee3 hours ago
This kind of open source expands the world.
hexxt-git4 hours ago
true open source!
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qweqwe143 hours ago
Why would you write like that? Not capitalizing the first word of a sentence makes the whole thing less readable. So that you can feel special? Really?
explorigin3 hours ago
Who hurt you? It's his own blog. Let him write the way he wants.
joka88xj5 hours ago
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that_guy_iain6 hours ago
I bet someone returned that security camera.
mikey_p5 hours ago
No, if you read the article the author was downloading firmware from their website and still found the token.
aizk5 hours ago
Department of War IP address? I feel this should be making headlines!
CodesInChaos5 hours ago
Abusing IP ranges which were assigned to an organization but aren't actually used on the public Internet as private addresses is pretty common. Sure, it's bad practice, but not a big deal.
TeMPOraL2 hours ago
Of course this looks entirely different when your corporate superstructure has a long and active history of developing military equipment.
caruasdo4 hours ago
I know you're a mastermind when it comes to security, but you should provide more context about the tools and methods you're using in your article so we can better understand what it's all about and not have to Google every single step you're taking.
dust-jacket4 hours ago
Oh I thought exactly the opposite!
I feel like every security blog (or even just tech blog) I've read recently has had paragraphs and paragraphs of largely LLM generated explainer waffle. This felt refreshingly focused and to the point.
hhhop4 hours ago
i’m not a mastermind, and I agree it could be more accessible. I treat this blog as somewhere to just dump my thoughts as unfiltered as I can while still being useful or entertaining, maybe for some other posts I will go more into depth
sophacles4 hours ago
Seemed perfectly reasonable to me. Not everything has to be written for a target audience that includes you, besides you were able to look up what you needed it seems. Another tactic is to feed the article to your favorite LLM and interrogate it about what you don't understand.