Reverse-Engineering

1. Why This Camera? I came across this cheap IPC camera on a local marketplace here in South Africa. The price was perfect to mess around with the device and potentially break it. The device cost around R300, or roughly $10. My goal with this device was to go from zero to one hundred in terms of how I document findings, while also looking at every nook and cranny I could reasonably reach. ...

Two devices off the same shelf, two completely different threat models. A cheap XiongMai-based IP camera that waves you through at every layer, versus a TP-Link VIGI NVR that makes you fight for every inch and still keeps its secrets in hardware.