Motion is great, but most (all?) consumer IP cameras and DVRs/NVRs are Swiss cheese security wise, they routinely phone home or make connections with servers in

Motion is great, but most (all?) consumer IP cameras and DVRs/NVRs are Swiss cheese security wise, they routinely phone home or make connections with servers in China, some even contain hardcoded passwords etc. so that the only way to use them reliably would involve a firewall only accepting connections from trusted sources while preventing the cameras subnet to send anything to the outside world. What we need is some alternative firmware just like OpenWRT, but aimed at IP cameras. That would be a real challenge, therefore it is probably better to build the IP camera from ground up with security and trust in mind. The PineCube from Pine64 seems a really good step in this direction. Just like their PinePhone, being so hard to liberate an existing phone, it's actually easier to design and produce from scratch one that is really free and open and therefore trustworthy. Some interesting options also from Friendlyarm to make small Linux driven embedded boards with cameras. https://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=70&product_id=245 https://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&...