[gutnor]

Confirmation that this is something real and not a theoretical risk. Similarly to Snowden, it wasn't newsworthy because it was possible and probably done, it was newsworthy because it existed and was currently done. (obviously the scope of this news is much more reduced)

If you are a US citizen, that tells you how you tax money is being spent. If you are a foreigner, you may have a few more ammunitions to get the funding for whatever security project you are working on.

Even on HN very few front page items are really worthy of anything more than procrastination material and it succeeded perfectly well at that: both you and I had better things to do than comment on this article.

That's a very blasé attitude btw, reminds me of the first time I have seen a wild tortoise, my family just commented: "yeah I see them all the time on TV, what's the interest?"

[CalChris]

Here's an article about hacking security cameras from 2012. It was the first hit on my google search.

https://www.wired.com/2012/05/cctv-hack/

This was public then and you can expect the black hats knew this years before. So again, what is new about this other than CIA? Yes, the CIA does these things; they wear black hats and that's also something we've known for quite some time.

Perhaps a more enlightening article would have been a wiki dump of manufacturers and distributors of these 'security' cameras not giving a shit about this problem.

But hey, Snowden.