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ahecht t1_j4q7r41 wrote

Without authentication, as long as you knew the serial number for that specific camera (and the serial numbers are non-sequential 16-digit alphanumeric strings that would take longer than the age of the universe to guess).

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Axman6 t1_j4q9bj5 wrote

IIRC there were only 65536 possible urls, but off the top of my head I can’t remember the source I got that from.

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ahecht t1_j4qityi wrote

The URL included the serial number (with 8 million-million-million-million possibilities) plus a 4-digit code (65536 possibilities), but a lot of tech reporting these days is a giant game of telephone so many article did incorrectly say that there were only 65536 possibilities.

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