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Lot of mixed feelings from this video. Author doesn’t seem to know you can also do the exact same thing with any other HikVision camera too. I was pulling (at least one) month-old feeds back in July from generic cameras using default credentials. Definitely seems like a configuration issue to not require any at all. Given the sheer amount of these (there’s a lot in my area), why could the author only find 60 feeds? Also none of these are responding to HTTP requests anymore as I have tried all links from his shodan query.
This is a much wider issue. So many people leave the default password on devices. I once installed an automatic gate with a pushbutton keypad at an airport and they wanted me to leave the default password of 0000 because it was easy to remember. I argued with them for 10 min, but they had the programming instructions and the airport manager straight up told me he'd just do it himself after I left, so I imagine that's what happened because he seemed pretty thick and didn't think that was an issue at all.