Running cables is not possible in lots of homes and there are plenty of wired cameras that send video to corporate clouds. The mistake is allowing those corporations access to those videos. Camera output should be encrypted and only usable for the camera owner unless they choose to opt in to the corporate spy network.

I imagine the 330 gallons of sulfuric acid delivered to the island would have taken care of most of them.

Booo!

Well done.

The cameras have no Internet access at all. Someone would need to be already inside my network for this vulnerability to be a problem.

Your prior comment was for newcomers?

"How is it encrypted, with what algorithm? was the alg implemented securely? who has the decryption keys? how were the keys generated? were they generated from a good enough entropy source? "

This was obviously written for people with quite a bit of knowledge. Most newcomers would have absolutely no idea what any of it means.

When people in a Lemmy technology community say “encryption” it should be obvious we’re referring to effective encryption, not a marketing claim on a product box.

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Frigate is a marvel. Setting it up and tweaking it does take time but once done it requires almost no maintenance (at least in my experience) and is close to flawless. It’s only had 1 false alert in the last year and that was caused by a spiderweb on the camera. I wish all my applications were as trouble free.

No “they” involved in my case, my cameras are not connected to the Internet. Didn’t realize the prior focus comment was for cameras in general.

There’s no focus on my cameras, but they’re set not to detect people unless them come into zones near the house.

I have absolutely no problem using these kinds of devices.

I have an old phone and a generic Play account that I used for setup so the companies have nothing of consequence but my public IP address. Setup takes less than 15 minutes and after that all Internet access is completely blocked just like it would be if I unplugged my cable modem. There is no way for the cameras to override my router settings.

My smart TV is much more of a concern.

TP-Link (which are cheap but so unreliable I had to add smart switches to reset them when they stop working), Foscam and Dahua. Dahua is by far the best. All of them record to a local server running Home Assistant and Frigate.

Not always the case. Some cameras require a proprietary app for set up but can then be set to stream to a local server. Internet access can then be completely blocked with router settings.

The problem isn’t that it’s being sent to the cloud, the problem is that it’s not being encrypted and Amazon is doing whatever they fuck they want with it, including giving it to law enforcement without a warrant.

My cameras have local network access only. Most people who are tech savvy enough to set up their own storage are also able to block Internet access for security cameras.

But another big concern for externally mounted cameras with microsd cards is the confiscation of those cards. They are are very easy to remove, often without tools and I don’t believe for a minute that the fact that a warrant is required would make police actually get one before taking the card.

It is never a good idea to trust corporations with anything if it can be avoided. Almost by definition corporations put profit above all else, and many are perfectly willing to engage in blatantly illegal actions if it’s profitable.

Amazon being trusted with video footage from inside and outside of people’s homes was bound to lead to a surveillance nightmare at some point.

Crime rates have dropped since their peak in the early 90s

At least partly due to the ban on lead additives in gasoline.

I’ve disabled Google’s Play Protect after it deleted multiple apps I rarely use and all their settings and being forced to spend hours configuring them again. I know I can manually change individual app settings to prevent that from happening, but given all the years Google’s been spreading malware why trust them? The fact Google regularly distributes malware and then wants permission to scan my phone for malware is laughable.

I avoid apps from the Google store because they can be downright dangerous, but I have few worries about that “dangerous” third party F-droid store.

If a organization with a tiny fraction of Google’s resources can detect these extensions Google can too. There is only one reason malware extensions and Android apps are being distributed by Google - they make more money distributing malware than they would if they detected and blocked it.

And these assholes pretend they are blocking app stores like F-Droid (which has never had a malware distribution problem) for “our protection.”

Sometimes?