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Breaking into apartment buildings in five minutes on my phone


What a place to use default credentials

I ended up just missing my ferry (the 30 minute Sunday headways are brutal), so I decided to see if I could find anything promising on my phone while waiting at Waterfront for the next boat. Googling the name of the system brings up a sales page advertising “TCP/IP capability to remotely program and maintain the system.” That sounds promising, so let’s try to find a manual. The large majority (71) of the exposed systems are in Canada, not surprising since 582 out of the 742 ZoomEye hits were Canadian (Nuclei scans fewer targets due to some duplicates).

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