{"id":180204,"date":"2017-06-25T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T00:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/06\/25\/i-am-so-not-sorry-about-this-computer-hack\/"},"modified":"2017-06-25T19:14:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T00:14:00","slug":"i-am-so-not-sorry-about-this-computer-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/06\/25\/i-am-so-not-sorry-about-this-computer-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"I am So Not Sorry About this Computer Hack\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2017\/06\/25\/contractors_duck_and_cover_after_speed_cams_infected_over_usb\/\">thousands of speed camera reports have been invalidated because a technician was updating machines with a tainted memory stick<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A contractor in the Australian State of Victoria has managed to infect an unknown number of speed cameras with a virus, over sneakernet. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Details aren&#8217;t so much sketchy as they are confused: the virus has been identified as WannaCrypt, but the government&#8217;s been told it infected both Linux and Windows-based cameras; there was no ransom demand; the main symptom was repeated camera reboots, and; contractors apparently hoped to keep things quiet by patching cameras without telling anyone. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The lid came off on Friday, and Victoria Police decided to cancel 590 fines issued by 55 cameras infected by a contractor visiting the cameras to perform software upgrades with a USB drive that also carried something nasty. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The number of known infections rose to 97 out of the state&#8217;s total of 280 speed cameras, after one of the state&#8217;s speed camera contractors, Redflex, told the Department of Justice it had identified and patched a further 42 infections earlier in June.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In excess of 7,500 fines issued between June 6 and June 22 are to be \u201cquarantined\u201d during the investigation, but may be reissued once the investigation is completed.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I want to state that I have no direct knowledge of any hacking operations, but if, for example, the good folks at 4Chan decided to hack speed cams and red light cams, I would donate to a GoFundMe of their legal defense.<\/p>\n<p>In the United States, at least, these programs are more about revenue generation and getting money to private contractors who operate the systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that thousands of speed camera reports have been invalidated because a technician was updating machines with a tainted memory stick: A contractor in the Australian State of Victoria has managed to infect an unknown number of speed cameras with a virus, over sneakernet. Details aren&#8217;t so much sketchy as they are confused: &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[395,407,480,471],"class_list":["post-180204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-computer","tag-justice","tag-taxes","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}