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I don't see any mention of USB in the article. Can you link a source?



https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jun/22/traff...

> The department of justice said Victoria’s infection was not the result of a targeted attack, but was caused by a contractor mistakenly connecting infected hardware to cameras.

Some sources are calling this a USB stick, the Guardian is being a bit more cautious.


Interesting, I always assumed the cameras transmitted the photos and data back to a source over mobile networks.

Technically this means if someone gets snapped and is desperate enough ( will lose job as a result of losing licence etc ) they can turn back and destroy the evidence.


Now that you mention it, i recall reading about a local case where someone tried to take out a camera using dynamite.

This revealed that the actual image storage was in a hardened cased buried in the ground some distance from the camera.

I suspect though that these are older installs. And that newer ones, particularly those that issue tickets based on time between two cameras, are networked.




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