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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

No apology for Wyze's breach, but only 1500 of the possible alerts for not-your-home were clicked on/viewed. Gotta love sensational headlines.

Also, if you're using a cloud-based camera for private spaces? Well, that's kinda a decision you made for yourself.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Also, if you're using a cloud-based camera for private spaces? Well, that's kinda a decision you made for yourself.

Not even just cloud based. I remember a decade or two ago a lot of security cameras were plugged into the regular network with enabled remote access. You could even find them through Google using specific search terms and a lot of them had either no or default logins configured. So you could basically spy into all sorts of peoples homes. If I ever were to install cameras in my home, they'd be completely separated from everything else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There are websites that allow you to view thousands of unsecured webfeeds

http://www.open topia.com/hiddencam.php

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Those are from public places, a lot of those cameras are promoted on their respective websites too since they're purposefully open. I'm talking about private household cameras. People who were doing their everyday things in their living rooms or bedrooms, without knowing that their camera just streams live to who knows how many strangers watching them through its remote access function.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

They have both types. I know exactly what you mean.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Well as long as it's just briefly...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

@catculation This has happened before and is a really big issue, but wouldn't some sort of network segmentation have helped prevent this especially as it's happened before?

I gave away my wife's Wyze camera and moved to Ubiquiti. It cost me a small fortune.

Not self-hosting at the moment but still, nothing can be as bad as Wyze, right?

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