> I recently read about a similar firmware bug in a security camera. It
> reboots itself every night at midnight.
>
> I can't *imagine* how a security camera temporarily turning itself off
> at a predictable moment every single night could *possibly* be a
> problem... :-P

You just need to buy their other camera, which reboots at 2am, and run 
both next to each other :-)

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On 19/05/2016 09:49 AM, scott wrote:
>> I recently read about a similar firmware bug in a security camera. It
>> reboots itself every night at midnight.
>>
>> I can't *imagine* how a security camera temporarily turning itself off
>> at a predictable moment every single night could *possibly* be a
>> problem... :-P
>
> You just need to buy their other camera, which reboots at 2am, and run
> both next to each other :-)

To be fair, the main point of the article in question was that the 
password to the camera's wire protocol was "12345". Hard-coded in 
firmware. Cannot change it. Both the camera and the control terminal 
have this hard-wired in firmware.

Then again, it was a dirt-cheap Chinese import.

(Presumably there are high-quality Chinese items somewhere... these are 
not the ones I'm talking about.)

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