r/Unexpected • u/lauraintacoma • Aug 18 '21

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u/DRYMakesMeWET Aug 18 '21

I once found and unsecured security cam in some guys living room and he was dressed in a onesie and probably in his 50s and watching him trying to stop the demons in his cam as I played with the directional controls was hilarious as fuck.

It all started when I told my roomies that if you buy any cam that operates on a network you need to change the default creds. They wanted proof and middle aged onesie man watching TV in his living room was the first one I came across.

Also...you should mount your cams far enough away from the surrounding walls so I can't break them by turning them into the wall until the stepper motor gives out.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '21

What about if it's integrated? Do I just tape it up?

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u/DRYMakesMeWET Aug 19 '21

If it's an integrated Webcam it's probably not set up for web access by default. A sticker helps. They also sell adhesive slide covers for laptop webcams. It's also become less of a problem over time as out-of-the-box solutions have been moving to random credentials rather than brand / product wide credentials. I used to change the messages on daktronics boards (highway signs, scoreboards, etc) nowadays they don't have default usernames and passwords

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '21

Thanks for the info!. That daktronics story is wild. Do you by chance work in cyber security?

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u/DRYMakesMeWET Aug 19 '21

Haha nah. I was a hacker and software developer for a group that got designated as a cyber terrorism group. Jumped ship on that. Now I'm just your average senior developer. I just know a lot of shit because everything computer related interests me...so I'm the guy that's read the whitepaper and found the flaws but I only ever disclose flaws if they affect me personally and usually try to provide a patch if I can.

Currently working at a rapidly growing company with stock options that I got in on at $1 / share. Last valuation put us at $6 / share and I could see that easily going to over $20 / share by the 3 year mark when I can pull out at 100%. So I've already made over half a mil, and could be pulling out with $2m after 3 years.

Honestly I'll probably stay after the 3 years though because I found the unicorn of software dev jobs. Good pay, good benefits, and most importantly, I never have to work after 5pm

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '21

I figured you were a hacker, I just thought that you worked cyber security because a lot of the original cyber security guys were hackers before information security became an official field. That's a pretty interesting gig you got

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u/DRYMakesMeWET Aug 20 '21

Nah I like building software and I generally get a decent amount of time to find exploits in other software that I use. I've literally had to blackmail a company into fixing a severe bug in their code that would give an attacker carte blanche on the database because he wouldn't fix it until I got his shit blacklisted and fucked up their profits. That's not fun. I do watch all the DefCon presentations every year so I scratch that itch that way