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I have three Wyze cams, which pretty much fit the bill of "cheap WiFi security cams which phone home to Chinese IPs". Though you can flash them with other firmw
by blacksmith_tb 7y ago
I have three Wyze cams, which pretty much fit the bill of "cheap WiFi security cams which phone home to Chinese IPs". Though you can flash them with other firmware, if you want to control that. Personally, being in the US, I am less worried about Chinese companies sharing my data with US corps or government agencies (that doesn't seem too likely, somehow) but I would certainly be more nervous if I lived in the PRC. I suppose there's still the possibility they could be compromised to try attack other machines on my network, but those aren't wide open.
- jandrese 7y agoMaybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to blackhole those IP ranges on your router? Maybe you're not afraid of the PRC company directly, but who says they aren't going to try to make a buck selling your data to whomever asks?
- blacksmith_tb 7y agoNot a bad idea (unless you flash your own firmware, since then you'd want to be able to rtsp to them), though I am still fairly skeptical the cams could intercept much on the network that wasn't encrypted, and that their tiny SOCs have the horsepower to do much of that...