The government that claims it can safely manage backdoor keys to our communications has once again demonstrated its fecklessness at securing sensitive data. Sans Newsbites is reporting that several license plate reader cameras were exposed online. In some cases, the live streams could be accessed. They link to the original EFF report that has screenshots of some of the exposed pages as well as some of the actual camera sites.
As scandals go, this isn’t a huge deal but it does demonstrate why trusting the government with the keys to your communications is something only the foolish would consider. If they can’t do the easy stuff—this was not a break in, they just exposed the cameras to the Internet—why would you think they’ll be able to take care of the important stuff? Oh, that’s right; they can’t do that either.