Recent content by Tawnos

Geez, so sorry it took me so long to reply to this. I missed it :(. There are tools that look for opcode patterns and match segments against known signatures for GPL code, similar to how antivirus/malware tools can use "signatures" to identify malicious code. So yeah, it's generally matching...

SuperCharles - that was part of my initial goal in seeking out this source. The stock firmware didn't support SSH in my device, and it was running versions of several libraries that had known vulnerabilities. Worse, some were statically linked inside hikvision's own source code, so just...

So, good news. I got confirmation that they're going to start (trying) to comply with the GPL. They have source uploaded here for a couple NVRs, now; still lots more to go: Hikvision Open Source Release Center

After discovering how terribly insecure the Swann-rebranded (as 8ch 3MP NVR) hikvision NVR (actual product is a ds-7608NI series) is out of the box (no https or SSL, old versions of libraries with known vulns statically linked to hikvision binaries, etc) and the difficulty updating/upgrading...