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Summary of why the "savings" from a serial number patch are far outweighed by the risk of a total security breach.
By exploiting this broken object-level authorization, hackers could bypass login screens entirely. They simply injected a valid serial number into the software's network requests to view live video feeds. The Risks of Unpatched Video Software security eye serial number patched