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Re:Google Forcing Nest Cameras’ Visual Indicator Light To Be On by duskwuff on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @08:46PM (#20701551)
There are real positive effects from this change, though -- in particular, it does prevent a remote attacker from viewing the camera undetected.
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Re:Google Forcing Nest Cameras’ Visual Indicator Light To Be On by mankyd on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @09:34PM (#20701833)
This was already solved, however. If one was worried about this, one could have set the option to leave the light on when recording.
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Re:Google Forcing Nest Cameras’ Visual Indicator Light To Be On by dgacmu on Thursday August 15, 2019 @04:55AM (#20703659)
The most likely threat model for someone being able to access your camera feed is that they compromise your Nest/Google account. In which case they just turn the light right back off.
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