58,000 Security Camera Systems Critically Vulnerable To Attackers

Sparrowvsrevolution writes with news of some particularly insecure security cameras. From the article: "Eighteen brands of security camera digital video recorders are vulnerable to an attack that would allow a hacker to remotely gain control of the devices to watch, copy, delete or alter video streams at will, as well as to use the machines as jumping-off points to access other computers behind a company's firewall, according to tests by two security researchers. And 58,000 of the hackable video boxes, all of which use firmware provided by the Guangdong, China-based firm Ray Sharp, are accessible via the Internet. Early last week a hacker who uses the handle someLuser found that commands sent to a Swann DVR via port 9000 were accepted without any authentication. That trick would allow anyone to retrieve the login credentials for the DVR's web-based control panel. To compound the problem, the DVRs automatically make themselves visible to external connections using a protocol known as Universal Plug And Play, (UPnP) which maps the devices' location to any local router that has UPnP enabled — a common default setting. ...Neither Ray Sharp nor any of the eighteen firms have yet released a firmware fix."

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"The Chinese" are Uncle Sam

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I don't know if you recall that 'bailout of 2008' but the Chinese Government is the only reason that the entire banking system didn't collapse. They own something like a trillion dollars worth of things like Treasury Bonds as well as Mortgage Securities.

According to Hank Paulson's book, Russia wanted to team up with China, call the debt, and make us go bankrupt and the banks die. China refused.

Partly because Hank Paulson, when he worked for Goldman Sachs, had spent several years in China getting to know the higher ups.

Now pull some bills out of your wallet. See the signature? Henry "Hank" Paulson. Treasury Secretary.