Why We Don’t Recommend Ring Cameras
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They’re affordable and ubiquitous, but homeowners shouldn’t be able to act as vigilantes.
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They’re affordable and ubiquitous, but homeowners shouldn’t be able to act as vigilantes.
They don’t recommend them because of what the homeowners can do with them?
I’m much more worried about the fact that they’re a constant feed of activity accessible by anyone who can bypass or be let through Amazon’s access controls.
Or shut them down, given the recent debacle with Amazon shutting down someone's account, disabling their devices in the process.
And here I am with my Eufy cameras...
In fairness is JUST bought the damned things right as all the drama was happening.
Saying this as an ethnically Chinese person who is not being racist... I had a eufy robovac and when I discovered it was Chinese-owned and had a video camera installed on it... I immediately got rid of that thing. I don't trust any technology company owned by China to be able to see into my home.
knowing nothing about the Eufy cameras, pros/cons?
It allows local hosting; however, thumbnails are sent through an unprotected, cloud based server where they were also cached. It was easily hacked a while ago, when someone figured out the file names, and their patch was to make the file names more obscure so they cannot be guessed.
I bought them a couple of years before the hack, and shit hit the fan. All my cams are external, so the privacy aspect isn’t as high as those with them inside a child’s room or elsewhere inside.
not just sent through, but indefinitely stored on the cloud server, despite advertising that it was not cloud-connected. It also generated facial-recognition based IDs for people which was also stored, and every single device could be connected to through an non-authorized connection request from VLC player.