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Why you'd want to fill your house with [internet connected] webcams is beyond me, let alone cams in your kids' rooms. People are weird.

by dmje 7y ago

Krasnol 7y ago
This is the first question that comes into my mind. However I had to scroll down pretty far to find it here. It doesn't look better over at reddit. No wonder nobody cares about the public space surveillance overload anymore. How could you, if your house is being monitored audio and visually by some company? This is really frightening.
- TeMPOraL 7y ago
  > However I had to scroll down pretty far to find it here. It doesn't look better over at reddit. Almost everyone who notices how ridiculously idiotic current IoT is has already spoken about it dozens of times here, on Reddit, or elsewhere. At some point people simply get tired of making the same point over and over and over again.
dillonmckay 7y ago
I used to do CCTV installs and configs, and it seemed the wealthier folks would want cameras inside their house, particularly in their master bedroom. Other folks simply wanted the exterior perimeter of their house under surveillance. This is how the Hulk Hogan sex tape was created.
tgsovlerkhgsel 7y ago
The kids rooms are pretty easy. Baby monitors have been a thing for a long time. Making them internet connected just means it's easier for the average person to get it to work on their phone (which may be on a different wifi, in a room just out of wifi range, using an AP with client isolation turned on, ...) which means that much more companies opt to build internet-connected than local-only stuff. The house? For many, it acts as an alarm system. I also assume that the police will react better to "there's two people robbing my home, I can see them on my camera" than "my alarm app told me a window was broken".
throwayEngineer 7y ago
What is the risk? Someone is going to watch me jerk off? Serious question.

Why you'd want to fill your house with [internet connected] webcams is beyond me, let alone cams in your kids' rooms. People are weird.

by dmje 7y ago

Why you'd want to fill your house with [internet connected] webcams is beyond me, let alone cams in your kids' rooms. People are weird.

Krasnol 7y ago

This is the first question that comes into my mind. However I had to scroll down pretty far to find it here. It doesn't look better over at reddit. No wonder nobody cares about the public space surveillance overload anymore. How could you, if your house is being monitored audio and visually by some company? This is really frightening.

TeMPOraL 7y ago
> However I had to scroll down pretty far to find it here. It doesn't look better over at reddit. Almost everyone who notices how ridiculously idiotic current IoT is has already spoken about it dozens of times here, on Reddit, or elsewhere. At some point people simply get tired of making the same point over and over and over again.

dillonmckay 7y ago

I used to do CCTV installs and configs, and it seemed the wealthier folks would want cameras inside their house, particularly in their master bedroom. Other folks simply wanted the exterior perimeter of their house under surveillance. This is how the Hulk Hogan sex tape was created.

tgsovlerkhgsel 7y ago

The kids rooms are pretty easy. Baby monitors have been a thing for a long time. Making them internet connected just means it's easier for the average person to get it to work on their phone (which may be on a different wifi, in a room just out of wifi range, using an AP with client isolation turned on, ...) which means that much more companies opt to build internet-connected than local-only stuff. The house? For many, it acts as an alarm system. I also assume that the police will react better to "there's two people robbing my home, I can see them on my camera" than "my alarm app told me a window was broken".

throwayEngineer 7y ago

What is the risk? Someone is going to watch me jerk off? Serious question.