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Slovakia discovers Russian backdoors in 279 new traffic cameras — SMS-triggered shell access and passwordless live feeds found in EU-funded rollout (www.tomshardware.com)
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Edit: Only 2 of these were actually installed.

...these cameras contain a hardcoded list of Russian phone numbers, which can be used to open a backdoor. An SMS from one of these numbers can open shell and network access.

...the web management portal can be accessed, exposing live streams, by anyone with the camera IP.

Reports also suggest that pressure from the opposition political party in Slovakia led to the NBU investigations. The current government of the country, led by populist Robert Fico, initially denied reports that the cameras were of Russian origin and rebuffed any security concerns. Fico has what some would describe as a pro-Russia tilt, but you can read more about that elsewhere, if you are interested.

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[–] 0 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

The public has been generally brainwashed into believing the Russians aren’t a threat

Are you fucking joking?

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  • [–] 5 points 8 hours ago* (1 child)

    Dude they sent congressmen to Russia on the 4th of July.

    They hand out t-shirts that say "I'd rather be a Russian than a Democrat".

    The current American president said that he trusts Putin over his own intelligence agencies.

    Are you fucking asleep?

    Or do you think they just haven't gone far enough?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 hours ago* (1 child)

    The Stephen Crowder tier of right-wing hucksters make money on the "Buy My Merch To Make The Libs Mad" gambit precisely because you've got a full panel at MSNBC screaming about Russians being behind everything from Black Lives Matter to InfoWars. This kind of annoying Own-The-Libs bullshit only works because Liberals eat the Evil Foreigners Behind Everything line up with a spoon. It works because so many people are panicked about Russians hiding in the weeds.

    "They" also happily parade around with "Trump 2028" hats and bumper stickers that gloat about contributing to climate change, because these things are unsettling to a liberal audience. If nobody cared about Russia, conservatives wouldn't try to enrage their Lib neighbors by claiming the love Putin so much.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago

    The conservatives owning the libs aside, you make a good point in that the establishment democrats have used Russia to justify their losses after they nominate the most unpopular candidates they can find to run status quo campaigns against a republican party running as reform in an angry electorate.

    But Russia is helping fascists across the west seize control, and it's very dangerous. Very very dangerous, the fascists were already poised to seize control, and Russia's help can be enough to put them over the edge seeing as we still trust the controlled opposition to stop them.

    In fact, unless we get some real populists across the west, liberal deocracies are going to fall like fucking dominoes the next couple of decades.

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