The Washington Post is running a story this morning regarding a ransomware attack between Jan 12- Jan 15 on DC CCTV. According to the article, the incident was confined to 48 hours.
I bring this article to your attention because I believe this could be an arguing point for PZGT deniers/debunkers- that the CPP camera movement was due to it being hacked. The first observed repositioning, during the CPP "shooting", occurred in December- dates not affected by this new attack. The 2nd camera movement was observed between Jan 22- Jan 26- dates not affected by this new attack. I just want people to be aware of these dates as I do believe it could be another avenue to discredit any inquiries.
Always be watching. Always be questioning. I do, and I will.
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Blacksmith21 ago
I need to look a little more, but the camera outside of CPP is a DDOT camera, not an MPD camera, different systems.
I've never her of NVRs being hacked, much less with randomware. Most NVRs run on some form of Linux. That's not to say they couldn't be hacked, but you would have to write malware for that particular flavor of Linux. Essentially a one-off. Makes no sense. That being said, their NVRs may possibly be Windows based, making them more vulnerable.
LadyGoldenVein ago
Understood, but it still exhibits a vulnerability which could be used as a future excuse. I do not work in IT, but have several friends who are IT Fraud Examiners. Until they update their IT Security (will take a long time- govt runs slowly) they are vulnerable. Regardless, anything can be hacked and the majority of internet users are not savvy enough to know how to secure their computers- from my experience in govt, they really suck at it.