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Russia tells citizens to switch off home surveillance because the Ukrainians are coming (www.theregister.com)

submitted 2 months ago by kid@sh.itjust.works to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 35 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 months ago

A modern equivalent of turning your lights off

[–] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

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