Re:Bought and returned set of WiFi home security cameras; ca...
by digi_owl on Sunday June 19, 2016 @01:00PM
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People thought the Shadowrun authors where off their meds when they made gear lose stat points from being offline, and now here we are...
Buzzwords combined with profit motive produce some worrying outcomes.
Re:Bought and returned set of WiFi home security cameras; ca...
by cookiecaper on Sunday June 19, 2016 @01:49PM
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The cameras you're discussing are not very safe for the layman either; you wanna be sure you have a properly-configured perimeter firewall before you use them and that they don't open any ports with UPnP. A cursory glance at shodan will reveal many such cameras that are happily streaming their images out to the open internet.
The title is missing an important fact: these are not traditional network cameras, they're ones that apparently stream video into the cloud.
Those cameras that do not "phone home" to a cloud service don't have this problem; the ones that you can set up with a username/password and then connect directly to from the network. Ironically it's the cheap no-name ones that usually work like this, as the company just sells the hardware and isn't one to bother with their own set of servers/accounts/etc.
IMHO these cameras that do rely on a third-party service are to be avoided, since what happens to that service is completely out of your control.