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Hacker Spoke To Baby and Hurled Obscenities At Couple Using Nest Camera, Dad Says (cbsnews.com)
pgmrdlm shares a report from CBS News: An Illinois couple said a hacker spoke to their baby through one of their Nest security cameras and then later hurled obscenities at them, CBS station WBBM-TV reports. Arjun Sud told the station he was outside his 7-month-old son's room Sunday outside Chicago and he heard someone talking. "I was shocked to hear a deep, manly voice talking," Sud said. "My blood ran cold." Sud told WBBM-TV he thought the voice was coming over the baby monitor by accident. But it returned when he and his wife were downstairs. The voice was coming from another of the many Nest cameras throughout the couple's Lake Barrington house. "Asking me, you know, why I'm looking at him -- because he saw obviously that I was looking back -- and continuing to taunt me," Sud said. Later that night, Arjun Sud noticed the Nest thermostat they have upstairs had been raised to 90 degrees. He suspected the hacker was behind that too. Nest's parent company, Google, said in a statement that Nest's system was not breached. Google said the recent incidents stem from customers "using compromised passwords exposed through breaches on other websites."
But I am sure as hell not letting anyone adjust my thermostat over the internet, or watch me (WHATEVER) either.
First law of people: People are generally stupid.
https://xkcd.com/792/
Yea, this is a bit of the owner's fault, but it seems like Nest could be a doing better job helping their customers secure their systems. Something like this happening wasn't an if, but a when.
Considering how sensitive this kind of system is, I would expect Nest to have some really simple security features like basic access logs, notifying you of (and maybe blocking) unknown IPs, required 2FA, etc.
This is why I'd never opt for some 3rd party managed system in my own home.
I can't wait for internet connected anal probes!
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Don't tell me to get a life. I'm a gamer; I have LOTS of lives!
Negligence or bad parenting for not securing the network... Child Services is on the way.
That's comparing apples to motorcycles. Also X10 fucking sucks ass.
--Electrician with experience dealing with X10
He blew an opportunity:
1. Make the baby "cry" when it's not really crying to mess with the parents.
2. Make the baby say phrases that borderline actual English and random baby gibberish. "I make doody shaped like Daddy's head" and the like. The parents will look at each other and go, "Did I hear what I think I heard?"
3. Have the baby fart loudly when guests are over.
Table-ized A.I.
for this baby :P
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That's comparing apples to motorcycles. Also X10 fucking sucks ass.
If X10 had an ass-sucking peripheral, not only would it not turn on when you wanted to, but it would also turn itself on in the middle of the night and suck every ass in town.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Sites could implement a simple password rule: You may not use the same password and email address at other sites. To enforce this, you agree to allow the site to attempt to log in to other sites using the same information, and if successful, your account will be disabled.
I would prefer it if that weren't necessary, but it looks like that's where we're heading.
Who else but Anonymous Coward!?
o/~ It's A-C, A-C. There's no knowing what he'll say next... o/~
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We have 3 Nest cameras as well. Chosen mainly because they seem to work very well without network hassles. Plus htey have a wide angle lens, no need for a cam that needs to swivel around. Use case is remote checking on or twin toddlers and their day caretaker. Also handy is that if she calls us about an issue then we can immediately see it. Finally it is cool that it has support for many devices. Like, giving a tap warning on the apple watch when movement occurs - handy to be alerted when they come back home after playing outside for example.
Anyway, while I think that the devices are wonderful, the lesson in the post is simply to use non-trivial passwords that you have not used anywhere else. Then it should be safe.
Most of these users provide anyone with their password via stupid social tricks and then they think the software was hacked!
Look, its stupid ok, giving people internet connected things, with one of the main selling points being how easy it is to use, and then not expecting normal simple folk to use them.
People are in so many databases. Databases will all be leaked eventually. People do not give a fuck about passwords, except that they are annoying. All these stories are an opportunity for engineers to solve the password problem. Its real, its multiplying, and you cant really blame the users that much for reusing the odd password (or 10) when they may have 100 password protected accounts of some sort these days.
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It is the number one hack. And largely address by browsers 20 years ago.
We only need to send a proof of possession of the password. The website only needs enough info to verify that we have it. A little crypto magic makes that very possible.
Secure Remote Password.
Devices like this should be standalone, not tied into an external cloud service...
You the owner of the device should decide exactly who has access, and be ultimately responsible if you choose weak passwords or fail to further protect the system with an additional layer such as a VPN.
I have CCTV at home, it requires that i first connect to a VPN in order to access it from outside. The cameras themselves are probably horrendously insecure, but they don't connect directly to the internet and are only accessed through a VPN which is actively maintained and gives me a reasonable level of confidence that noone other than myself has access.
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You're welcome.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
Actually some of the most common service calls I had with them back in the day was "it wont turn on" or "it just turns on randomly" Hence my comment about it sucking ass. And they were even made here in wonderful Las Vegas.. Well really in scummy North Las Vegas(like all of vegas isnt ghetto lol)
Why is he looking back at me?
I have it on good authority that motorcycles are much better than apples.
I was gonna try to say something funny back. But I was too stoned to think of anything but "If you like motorcycles". Some peoples children...