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Ask HN: How risky are wifi-enabled baby monitors and security cameras?

• bartvk 9y ago
  You could have added a bit more information, right? Risk is usually defined as equal to chance times damage. So which damage could happen in your case? In other words, that security camera, what is it guarding? In a general sense, if you plan to buy a camera, I think it would make sense to see how the vendor has reacted to security holes in the past.
• PaulHoule 9y ago
  Burglars are in the business of coming into your place when you aren't there, taking your stuff, and hauling it away. Robbery/home invasion is a different business entirely, so burglars are always on the outlook for ways to know if you are home or not. There also have been cases where the residents of a house were planning a crime or a cover-up for a crime and police have impounded security camera tapes as evidence. Richard Nixon proved that the person most likely to bug you is you and that is still true today.
• qhwudbebd 9y ago
  I wanted to buy IP cameras for my farm but had the same doubts you do. So I bought many different models, all of which had dozens of random and utterly inappropriate services running along with a hideous web interface that made me shudder to think what lay inside. In some cases I unpicked the firmware and saw it was even worse than imagined. They all got sold on eBay. I claim there are no competent products in this category, though I would dearly love to be proved wrong with a counterexample. You could always use a RPi 0w plus camera module I suppose?
• borplk 9y ago
  Most of them are really bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4bhkKk5MCY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4bhkKk5MCY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxGmQWrNQC4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxGmQWrNQC4
• bradknowles 9y ago
  Yes.