At this point it may be worth me explaining some of the passwords used in FLIR equipment.
Some are intended to reduce the chances of users accidentally damaging the cameras performance by ‘fiddling’ with settings, whilst others are intended to prevent access for corporate reasons.
“3vlig”
This is a Swedish password that comes from the Ex AGEMA (Sweden) staff of FLIR. The Swedish word is actually Trevlig which means “Nice” in English
FLIR bought AGEMA and the rights to its designs. The AGEMA passwords remained in software and products. Later cameras developed by the Ex AGEMA team continued to use The Swedish passwords. It was almost a protest to say AGEMA may have been “Borged” by the American FLIR company, but the Swedish heart still beats within its products ! A sort of in-house joke maybe ? It is no secret that AGEMA, Inframetrics and Indigo staff were less than thrilled at being absorbed into FLIR !
“indigo”
This is a password from the days when Indigo were the manufacturer of very capable and compact thermal imaging cameras. FLIR bought Indigo and absorbed the very knowledgeable staff into FLIR. It is no surprise that “Indigo” is found in software that FLIR now uses. The TAU series of cores are direct descendants of the Indigo Omega and Photon cores.
“www.flir.com”
This password brings me nicely to trying obvious passwords if one is not known. Many manufacturers used to use the company name, or a variant of it, as engineering passwords. It is not uncommon to find that an engineering password is the company name in reverse ! In the case of the Faxitron X-Ray machine I owned, the password fir advanced menu access was NORTIXAF (all upper case) Guessing such a password is not trivial however as a mixture of upper and lower case can be used, plus variations on the company name As FLIR have done in the case of “www.flir.com” ! If you go hunting for plain text entries in software using a Hex editor, you may strike lucky if you see a possible password candidate though
There is another Swedish password used in a FLIR camera but sadly I have forgotten it
FLIR is an amalgamation of several very capable companies so it is no surprise that remnants of those individual companies creep into password usage. AGEMA were a very reputable and capable thermal camera manufacturer. They were based in Sweden so it is no surprise that the engineering team used Swedish words, or variants of such, as engineering passwords. That does make life harder to spot the password in a text search of software though. Inframetrics were a USA based company that FLIR bought. I have not seen any Inframetrics passwords however so no clues as to what format they are or if in some way connected with Inframetrics history. Indigo, as has already been stated, were a very important acquisition fir FLIR. They had a great design team and many still work fir FLIR. Some left to form Seek Thermal. Many of the Indigo camera designs and techniques gave birth to FLIR’s current camera offerings. The roots of the Ex and Exx series are in Indigo technology and knowledge.
It is well worth reading any, and all technical documentation for a manufacturers cameras, especially documents like the ICD or firmware update processes. You sometimes find login and password information ‘hidden’ in such documents as some users need such to configure a camera for their needs. This applies mainly to Industrial cameras however. In the case of FLIR I have found login and password information within Technical Installation guides and amongst Technical Support answers in camera FAQ’s and firmware patching instructions.
Sadly Passwords are never easy to guess without at least some hint as to the format and likely options. There are very clever members of this forum who know far more than me about finding passwords in software or circumventing such protection. This thread is really just a collection of passwords that are already in the public domain.
Fraser