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Anonymous has hacked Russian CCTV and published the feeds online

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> 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.

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.

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.

Sure, but if they're 'clandestinely working with anonymous' then they just are part of anonymous, as that's the only membership criteria.

Agreed

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.

> 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.

You’re right, I just meant that they assisted in identifying them for arrest.

I wonder if hacker news would allow this post if it was American cameras being hacked?

Probably? I remember seeing those sites that list open VNC instances on hn, which is pretty similar.

Yeah, it would sure be weird if HN showed favoritism toward its host country.

The world wide version has been posted few times in the past: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=insecam.org

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.

>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.

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.

Hacking of American companies and government gets covered a lot on HN.

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.

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.

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".

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."?

A related article.

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/06/what-do...

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"?

Context is subjective, precision is universal. I (perhaps wrongly) don't think of HN as a USA-centric site based upon USA-centric discussion - I think of it as a global community - so my context expectations are set accordingly. But obviously, others may think differently.

Understood, appreciate the discussion and the point of view. I've learned something from this!

Thank you - likewise appreciated, and points acknowledged. The gulfs between Technically Correct and Socially Correct are ever grounds for debate, but mutual understanding wins the day.

Step 1: post CCTV feeds

Step 2:

Step 3: Depose Putin

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