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DSLR Software Dangers?

jeallen01
Posted 12/08/2019 - 14:59 Link
See here https://www.expertreviews.co.uk/digital-cameras/1409918/canon-dslr-camera-hack?_...
Originally found in Canons but could affect other makes - and could then infect your home networks

And the US forum thread on it
K-3 II, K-3 and a K-70 from SRS (having now relegated the K-30 /"K-50" to a backup body), & some Sigma and Pentax lenses (and a lot of old 35mm gear!)
Edited by jeallen01: 12/08/2019 - 15:06
johnriley
Posted 12/08/2019 - 23:58 Link
It's an interesting read, but the essence of it seems to be that the risks here are pretty slim and may be more of a threat to smartphones. Not something I'm going to lose any sleep over.
Best regards, John
Don
Posted 13/08/2019 - 20:37 Link
don't worry...Pentax cameras aren't advanced enough to run malware yet...
Fired many shots. Didn't kill anything.
jeallen01
Posted 13/08/2019 - 20:40 Link
Don wrote:
don't worry...Pentax cameras aren't advanced enough to run malware yet...

K-3 II, K-3 and a K-70 from SRS (having now relegated the K-30 /"K-50" to a backup body), & some Sigma and Pentax lenses (and a lot of old 35mm gear!)
jeallen01
Posted 27/08/2019 - 09:29 Link
This thread keeps getting spammed - probably the"R" word in the title "attracts" them!

Therefore I think the thread should now be deleted as anyone actually interested in it has probably already seen it, and removing it will save the Mods the "hassle" of deleting any further spamming posts!
K-3 II, K-3 and a K-70 from SRS (having now relegated the K-30 /"K-50" to a backup body), & some Sigma and Pentax lenses (and a lot of old 35mm gear!)
johnriley
Posted 27/08/2019 - 10:13 Link
An interesting thought, so I've changed the title to see if that stops it.
jeallen01
Posted 29/08/2019 - 15:10 Link
Just fired up the PC for the first time since 8am and there was an alert message for this thread, but when I Iogged-in then "whatever it was " was gone, and so, I assume, was deleted by one of the Mods for the same reasons as previous spam messages were.

Therefore I guess that this thread is still being spammed, and thus should be completely deleted as I suggested a couple of days ago.
K-3 II, K-3 and a K-70 from SRS (having now relegated the K-30 /"K-50" to a backup body), & some Sigma and Pentax lenses (and a lot of old 35mm gear!)
JAK
Posted 29/08/2019 - 17:34 Link
jeallen01 wrote:
Just fired up the PC for the first time since 8am and there was an alert message for this thread, but when I Iogged-in then "whatever it was " was gone, and so, I assume, was deleted by one of the Mods for the same reasons as previous spam messages were.

Therefore I guess that this thread is still being spammed, and thus should be completely deleted as I suggested a couple of days ago.

Maybe it's your signature where it says, ''now running the Hacked K-50 f/w"
John K
Edited by JAK: 29/08/2019 - 17:35
jeallen01
Posted 29/08/2019 - 19:11 Link
JAK wrote:
Maybe it's your signature where it says, ''now running the Hacked K-50 f/w"

In that case, a lot of other threads should also have been spammed - but apparently they haven't!
K-3 II, K-3 and a K-70 from SRS (having now relegated the K-30 /"K-50" to a backup body), & some Sigma and Pentax lenses (and a lot of old 35mm gear!)
Edited by jeallen01: 29/08/2019 - 19:16

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