• atro_city
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    4527 days ago

    Never thought I’d read “turn of your phones, the Ukrainians are coming”. Quite the panicked reaction.

    • circuscritic
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      3527 days ago

      That might be an unintended benefit, but no, the rationale is pretty sound.

      Basically Ukraine identified the local IP ranges and mass scanned them for open webcams for intelligence gathering and scouting purposes.

      It’s pretty ingenious and I am left wondering if this is the first time this tactic has been deployed at scale during a conventional war.

      Regardless, I expect this is one of those things that we will see moving forward in any future conventional wars, including governments requesting their civilians turn off their IP cameras, or otherwise forcing them to.

      • @Manifish_Destiny
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        1027 days ago

        No. This happens whenever a modern invading force moves into a modern town now.

        • circuscritic
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          I know it’s been done on the unit or tactical level, but I wasn’t aware of another example of this level of it being operationalized at this scale before

          If you have an example to reference, would you mind sharing? Not being sarcastic, I’d be interested in reading up more on how that is dealt with at scale.

      • @[email protected]
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        627 days ago

        Anyways, the PBPTRPB brand cameras I bout on Amazon from China were very affordable. I wonder why…

  • @cm0002
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    1627 days ago

    Someone somewhere in Russia: Runs out to buy 20 more cameras for multiple angles

  • @Cryan24
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    427 days ago

    Is this the Russian version of don’t look up?

  • @[email protected]
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    326 days ago

    “Turn off your surveillance systems!”

    “Why would you think the Ukrainians can hack it?”

    “Erm… no reason”