What I was actually thinking - "How would someone shut down a surveillance camera?"
Optical Cyber Intrusion. Whoa.
Then I started spitballing (thats about my tech level on this topic. OK, fair. Any tech topic.)
Evidently, light can be used to communicate with digital systems. I found a bit of research, like a 2019 paper called aIR-Jumper, which showed communication with air-gapped systems through infrared signals and surveillance cameras.
The next "obvious" question I wondered about was - could light be used as a way to cyberattack? Could an optical signal of some sort be used to disrupt or compromise surveillance cameras or other another connected device? I mean there are so many sites with surveillance sytems, I would imagine theyre all connected into the the company or site network.
Anyone working in optical communications, embedded security, camera systems, or related fields have any insight?
toomuchtodo•37m ago
You would need to understand the exploit chain needed within an ALPR to determine where a potential weakness would be possible, from camera CCD to the onboard code engine that processes the imagery and ships back to the control plane over a mobile provider network. Not impossible, but not easy, easiest way would be to have an LLM de-compile and search the ALPR's code contents, if one had access to one. This would also help you understand if there was an exploit path into the control plane based on the interface details between the ALPR network and the control plane.
Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50058850 - October 2026
https://github.com/morluto/rea
https://rea.tools