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The power of (your) invisible hands: could we create a security and efficiency incentive that works?
I’m a big fan of “the invisible hand“, an economics concept coined by Adam Smith. The concept is that your individual selfish action can cause (good) social benefits elsewhere. An example would be putting a $0.05 tax on a plastic grocery bag. You being the cheapskate you are now reuse bags, and that causes a…
The WyzeCam / Xiaomi Fang
The Xiaomi XiaoFang. Its a cheap IP camera (~$20-$30) that delivers decent quality. Is it a candidate to be ‘improved’ with a bit of hacking? You betcha!. Spurred on by some external impetus, I acquired a WyzeCam. And of course, before turning it on, we took it apart! A bit of squeezing, prying, and a…
Hacking the hikvision: part 2
So I first wrote about getting the serial access here, and about some of the access bits here. Today lets talk about toolchains etc. (for those just joining, I have some IOT devices, notably IP cameras, which are now insecure, and there is no, and will be no, firmware upgrade for them from the vendor…
Hacking the Hikvision: part 1
OK, you voted to not be lazy, and thus I’ve stuck to it. Where am I at with upgrading the DS-2CD2132 hikvision cameras? Well, not super far. We ran into a snag. The new firmware only works in the chinese region. I guess I could accept that, but it does have the english strings in…
Crypto on the keychain: the Ledger nano s
So yesterday I received my Ledger nano s. Its a hardware crypto-wallet, storing all your hard-earned coins in a safe, secure, offline fashion. Now, i’m not a huge crypto-baron, sitting on billions of $$$ of XRP/XMR/BTC/ETH/…, I’m a casual miner. Still, $ is $, and you want to HODL in style and safety. First, a…
