imagine a city with a system with 3,000 cameras, ran by the police. the system shows real time video, and records videos for later use. now imagine the organized crime have someone inside that have access to the system... now the criminals have access to all "secret" police cars, all surveillance footage on their members, the routine of authorities...

and that happened in Sao Paulo, where the organized crime was planning to kill a senator

> one more argument about why having a backdoor on an encryption system meant to be used only by the police/government won't work

eh, the distinction between "police" and "gangs" is pretty loose tbh, and in the same regard the distinction between "government" and "organized crime" is just that one is organized.

@ThoriumBR That's smart. In Albania, the criminals didn't think of that and were forced to make their own CCTV system instead.

Of course, state-run CCTV systems... I don't know anything about how things work in Brazil, but I wouldn't be surprised if at least a quarter of the cameras are broken. So maybe the Albanians were just avoiding that problem.

vice.com/en/article/xgynb4/albanian-gangs-cctv

cameras are usually on hard to reach places, so most of them are working.

Hard to reach means it's hard to replace/fix them. But you could still shoot them.... So it sounds like the criminals intentionally left them in place. They may have had a back door from day one.

some of them are on top of tall buildings, inside train stations, on bridges, things like that

@FireQuacker amazon.com/WALI-Simulated-Surveillance-Security-TC-W4/dp/…

Contract went to the lowest bidder ;)

them being "broken" is a feature not a bug