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Mind showing me a camera that you can definitively say the government (or other actors) don't have the potential for backdoor access to? I certainly can't.
by Rooster61 7y ago
Mind showing me a camera that you can definitively say the government (or other actors) don't have the potential for backdoor access to?
I certainly can't.
- detritus 7y agoNope, and in case of crime, most local police forces can simply walk into local stores and request recordings from the last X days, so quite why they'd need illicit backdoors, I don't know. I'm also entirely fine with this. Backdoors in cheap CCTV being accessed illicitly at a mass-level is an entirely different problem, and one which I'd agree would need questioning. I doubt there's much value in that concern for another decade, until the majority of CCTV cameras are ultra high resolution/30+fps, which they're not.
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- i_am_proteus 7y agoAny CCTV system that's air-gapped from the internet (records to local storage only) reasonably meets this definition. Yes, there are possible exfil paths, but not ones that can reasonably be executed on a large scale. Realistically, the danger from break-in and hard drive theft (or warrant/subpoena) is greater for the average user.
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- semi-extrinsic 7y agoRaspberry Pi Camera Module? Unless you believe governments have backdoored SSH, I would say it's good. Definitely not a turnkey solution though.
- ryandrake 7y agoNot to mention camera technology that only records “junkies and thieves” and not the thousands of innocent people going about their day. There is nothing ok about pervasive, constant surveillance of law abiding people.