Other Wyze users also reported seeing a screenshot of someone else's camera when using the web access feature for their own camera. Wyze acknowledged the issue. Beware.
I wouldn't be surprised if some of these weird electronics brands are funded by intelligence organizations from certain nations with sophisticated attack capability. I'm not just talking about the US.
@furythree Early September. Seems like it's been patched and, at least according to Wyze, affected only 10 users. They weren't specific about how they know that, though. Recommend reading the NY Times' Wirecutter post where they pulled their recommendation about Wyze products (easy Google search).
I only use it for my cat while I'm away, otherwise it's off/unplugged. I thought it was common sense not to leave it on while doing private things but hey, maybe not. Now you know! The internet isn't secure, that goes for everything including things that "should" be. It's just a rule of thumb.
They always say, "they are welcome to watch a door." until someone is willing to take them up on that offer. Rumor has it, @Reneculeous has a collection of Rolex watches, gold bars, and a few rare art paintings in their unit.
To more clearly iterate what has been said, knowing when a home or business is empty is useful information for someone already prepared to invade your electronic devices to spy on your comings and goings, in particular if you for instance recently received a new shipment of something valuable, portable and easily resell-able. This is, of course, beyond the security implications of having more nefarious purposes from someone looking to target you specifically for assault, or a frame-up job. It would seem that statistically, networked security cameras are as much a vulnerability as a protection much like small arms are, without the higher degree of lethality though...
great job with this one! i feel like you kinda skipped over the possibility that some feeds could be accessible to the vendors, actively give it to cops, which ring doorbell has got a lot of heat for. but the stuff about selfhosting and avoiding anyone else having access was spot on with what to look out for.
It really annoys me that when people talk about your own cameras stalking you they always mention hackers and not the thousands of Amazon, Tesla and other tech firm employees that have permanent access to both your camera and recorded footage if your service is cloud-based, and have been caught red-handed recording people committing intimate acts, stalking ex partners, spying on other peoples children for laughs and more on MULTIPLE accounts. And that's not even touching on what happens if a cop decides he needs a warrant on you...that concern alone is the reason most governments outside the US refuse to use the technology. Do not ever buy a camera that connects to the global internet.
I just use motioneye with HomeAssistant. It's connected to cheap EZVIZ Wi-Fi cameras on a no-internet network via RTSP. I don't trust EZVIZ (Hikvision) at all, so those cameras just never see internet.
My restaurants owner covered up his "Camera" on his tv because he thought someone was watching him thru it, he started complaining that his remote didn't work after he covered over the camera. My man thought his TVs IR sensor was watching him.
I found it funny at first until I realized... no, that absolutely is a camera. Only a single pixel (and with a filter to only see IR light), sure, but a camera nevertheless xD
That sounds like a great way to prevent people from covering their cameras doesn't it, @@pieterrossouw8596? Just use the camera for the IR sensor. "Oh, you're going to cover the camera up so we can't spy on you? Well... Now your remote won't work. See how you like that!" Your cell phone camera picks up IR already, by the way. Did you know? Go to your photo app, point your remote at it, and push a button.
If you put a network-attached camera in your bedroom or worse, in your kid's bedroom, you're just begging for footage of your family to end up on the darknet. Like seriously, it should be illegal for parents to put a camera in their daughter's room for a million reasons but this is definitely one of them.
Think of it this way: Whether it's the indoor camera or the people in the walls, crawlspace or hidden rooms, you're never alone. This thought should comfort you at night!
I assume all cameras on a network can be hacked so I'm not dumb enough to put them on or in my own home. It's like paying to live in a prison. This modern paranoid obsession with putting up security cameras on every door and cirner is INSANE.
I know family that put them as pet cameras for when they're away, or on vacation. And one of them is a PhD in computer science, and does cybersecurity. Because a NAS-based approach is too much of a hacker risk, even when you control it. Or the cost savings justify it. The latter is fair, but the former if you properly roll your own can be ideal to cloud and backing up family photos and videos to external drives.
Or some people just want to know whats is going on when they not there, or to watch kids to make sure they are good while they are away, and many other reasons that's not for security. but ya its on the network, it is not the safest way of protection, but can still be helpful in some cases.
Pretty cool you don’t allow your phone on a network. It’s all about proper levels of paranoia buddy. Enable two factor. Local recording and you’re fine.
My doorbell is the only camera and one of the few smart devices in my house allowed to connect to the internet purely trying to recreate the doorbell features isn't the easiest. I have a reolink, which has SD card storage and I dont pay for the cloud features. It also advertises an RTSP stream on the network, so I connect that to my local NVR to record locally. Other than a few devices like Alexas, TVs, etc. All my smart devices are not allowed to connect to the internet and can't communicate with any other devices on the network other than my Home Assistant instance and my phone (for set up & convenience)
Setup the camera's LAN only, no online ports, then VPN in to view. As long as you trust the security of your LAN and your VPN you're good. Though that is the more complex DIY approach.
@GeoBurress Rob what? My $300 TV? My Samsung Tablet? Maybe it's my super expensive 2017 gaming laptop 🤣. I live in an apartment that you need a fob to get in to start and out of all the people to rob they are welcome to take my old shit so I have an insurance claim and have money to upgrade
@@EarlsPearlsdevil's advocate, but people have been robbed for less. And they don't know what you have, so at the very least, you risk coming home to an apartment torn to shreds and your stuff all messed up/broken. Your argument kind of reads like "Google already has all my information so why should I stop giving them more?" Kinda vibes. It's not that you have to actively fight back, just passively protect yourself is all we're saying! :D
@Kitteh.B Yea but in my 34 years of life I have never been robbed. If someone had the ability and time to hack my cameras to determine if I was home or not I think they also have the ability to know the car I drive and cloths I wear and realize this isn't a worthwhile target. What's more likely a decently smart person hacks my cameras and robs me or I'm robbed randomly and the cameras had nothing to do with it
@@EarlsPearls, it's not even limited to thieves, you know. Do you know about the giant data center in Utah that uses as much power as three mid-sized US cities? What do you suppose they're doing there? Working tirelessly to cure cancer? Designing the perfect economic system that will be fair and equitable for all of humanity? Probably not so much... If you think you're not doing anything wrong and so have nothing to hide you're a fool. "Anything you say can and will be used against you..." and these days you're guilty until proven innocent.
I run a cheap secondhand server for my exterior cameras and my router is hosting a Wireguard VPN.This makes it so that I can access the live feed from anywhere without opening ports, I have my Wireguard setup on all my devices as a one-click button and then I can see my cameras instantly. 😊
I put a webcam on my 3D printer with 3rd party software just so i could see when the print was done from my phone. I didnt put a password on it and was shocked that random people would find my ip adress just to watch it. I didnt know there was a snooping website as pointed out in this video.
There is an entire subculture on youtube with "satisfying videos", of which the clips are often compilations of cnc-routers or 3d printers. So I am not so surprised someone would want to hack into specifically _your_ webcam to see _your_ 3d printer :p jokes aside, I could actually see someone making such content use such a website to find such webcams to nab some free content to put into their vid xD
Think recording devices inside would need outside storage to keep footage secure in case you want to keep malicious actors against your property from deleting it/modifying. Also great for legal enforcement if that needs to happen. However, I wouldn't trust any technology I didn't have input for the Security Development Lifecycle.
Here's and idea for a video. setup up cameras with local storage on a separate LAN or VLAN, lock it down from internet access, set up a VPN tunnelserver and allow remote access to live cameras via that. Then you dont have to care if the cameras are compromised from the factory, because they can never 'phone home' or elsewhere
Great video, this is very important stuff, I get tired of explaining to people LOL. Now I can link them this video. I have a lot of cameras because I live in a neighborhood with a large drug problem. $400 in cameras (and my person vigilance) has saved me from over $10,000 in theft losses. My Tip: Treat any area you install a camera as if it's a public space. If you're willing to treat some rooms in your home this way, okay. But don't go wandering naked or having wild games of Twister in "public spaces."
Have they just been a deterrent or have you caught people on camera trying to steal stuff. (and then actually had police do something about it. cuz allegedly they won't or can't do anything with footage)
As far as UPnP.. There are both cons and pros. Cons: #1 Open ports in the NAT router without asked first what the NAT router's control password is. #2 Maybe open on WAN Port depending on NAT router. Pros: As long as you have only one active (turned on and in use) game console (Xbox/Playstation), you do not need to use UPnP. But if you more than one and you have only one Public IP Address (as most people do not have more than one), good luck getting NAT Type 2 (or what ever it is on the Xbox) without the use of UPnP. Please note this is only based upon what I read/heard.
Lol.. don't comment if you don't know what you're talking about NAT types are standardized. Not "whatever xbox calls them". UPnP is a vulnerable mess. Turn it off. Hackers with shell access to any one of your machines can exploit UPnP to forward any ports to any machine on your network
Be Like Dave (Me) The Cameras Themselves Don't Connect To The Internet But The PC I View Footage On Is... If I Want To Check On My House I Just Remote Into Said PC (Custom Firewall Only Allows My Remote Monitoring Software To Access The Internet) I Feel Safe Like This (Until My Parsec Is Hacked Or Something)
I never got why you need security cameras inside your house. On the outsode i can early see whay, but in the inside? If the thief is already in yoir house it is to late anyway...
Why i only use cameras running my own firmware and running on a seperate isolated network and pointed at things that are not interesting like my front door
1:53 Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but I'm pretty sure that if you don't have any ports open, you don't have internet access, or any kind of network traffic at all. HTTP and HTTPS require specific ports to be open to allow that traffic through and even file transfers over a local network require open ports on any devices with a firewall, such as your computer and possibly the router. Every service that uses a different port requires that port to also be open or that traffic doesn't get through. You can't just close all ports and have working internet.
The router assigns a random port for outgoing requests and keep track of that, the destination adress and port along with the local ip and port, so when it get a packet from that adress and port going to that port it knows where to send it. If it doesn't match, the packet get dropped. If you "open" a port it send all traffic coming into that port to whatever device you specified.
Port configuration on your router refer to the ability of someone outside of your internal lan to establish and start a new connection. Usually, what you describe it's traffic generated from inside your network, so router are "smart" enough to consent external service to respond your requests. That's why you usually don't need opening ports unless you know what are you doing and you really need that port open (for example, you host a website and want it to be reachable from the internet)
Your router uses a mixture of PAT and NAT to figure out where to send packets too. As you are accessing a site, your router will trust a TCP connection initiated from inside your network and let that work, however if you want UDP, your device needs to UPnP or open ports explicitly.
when you visit sites, your device is the one to initiate a TCP request to the server on the other side, your router knows it's you starting it, trusts it and just lets the connection go through. You and the server can communicate and transfer the contents of the site before closing the connection or keeping it connected.
"millions of people have indoor smart cameras" I didn't even know that was a thing. What's even the use case for it? Guess it's a necessity if you live in a crime ridden hell hole like the US or something where home invasion is a normal daily routine.
Recommendation: plug your indoor camera to the smart plug before plugging to the wall. Remotely close all the camera when you are at home and only turn these smart plug on when you are not at home
I simply remove them from socket when I am home. If there is a cable connected to a power source directly or indirectly I don't trust it. Either way, weird that neither of these obvious options were presented.
Other Wyze users also reported seeing a screenshot of someone else's camera when using the web access feature for their own camera. Wyze acknowledged the issue. Beware.
I wouldn't be surprised if some of these weird electronics brands are funded by intelligence organizations from certain nations with sophisticated attack capability. I'm not just talking about the US.
How long ago was this. Has it been patched
@furythree Early September. Seems like it's been patched and, at least according to Wyze, affected only 10 users. They weren't specific about how they know that, though.
Recommend reading the NY Times' Wirecutter post where they pulled their recommendation about Wyze products (easy Google search).
I disconnect the Ethernet cable of my CCTV DVR when I don’t need remote viewing. Everything stored locally
I only use it for my cat while I'm away, otherwise it's off/unplugged. I thought it was common sense not to leave it on while doing private things but hey, maybe not. Now you know! The internet isn't secure, that goes for everything including things that "should" be. It's just a rule of thumb.
This is why I am extremely wary of connecting devices to the Internet unnecessarily. The surveillance implications are terrifying.
Linus did a video a while back installing a self hosted camera system.
Big brother is watching you
@@Legion849 Big brother, little brother, the creep down the street and all the 14-year-olds who are sleeping with your mum (or so they claim).
That’s why my camera is positioned so it only sees the only entrance to my apartment. If people are hacking that they are welcome to watch a door.
They can still know when you come and go.
Can i watch?
edit: pretty please?
They always say, "they are welcome to watch a door." until someone is willing to take them up on that offer.
Rumor has it, @Reneculeous has a collection of Rolex watches, gold bars, and a few rare art paintings in their unit.
Dude... you literally just asked the internet to hack into your home network
Pro tip: FUCKING DONT
To more clearly iterate what has been said, knowing when a home or business is empty is useful information for someone already prepared to invade your electronic devices to spy on your comings and goings, in particular if you for instance recently received a new shipment of something valuable, portable and easily resell-able. This is, of course, beyond the security implications of having more nefarious purposes from someone looking to target you specifically for assault, or a frame-up job. It would seem that statistically, networked security cameras are as much a vulnerability as a protection much like small arms are, without the higher degree of lethality though...
great job with this one! i feel like you kinda skipped over the possibility that some feeds could be accessible to the vendors, actively give it to cops, which ring doorbell has got a lot of heat for. but the stuff about selfhosting and avoiding anyone else having access was spot on with what to look out for.
It really annoys me that when people talk about your own cameras stalking you they always mention hackers and not the thousands of Amazon, Tesla and other tech firm employees that have permanent access to both your camera and recorded footage if your service is cloud-based, and have been caught red-handed recording people committing intimate acts, stalking ex partners, spying on other peoples children for laughs and more on MULTIPLE accounts.
And that's not even touching on what happens if a cop decides he needs a warrant on you...that concern alone is the reason most governments outside the US refuse to use the technology.
Do not ever buy a camera that connects to the global internet.
This shall be meme forever : 0:16
FOR EVER
I can't believe they put that in there. gosh... lol. I wonder if it was already a meme. If not its definitely gold for future usage.
@onfire60 it was footage from the 2021 April fools video
Short answer: yes.
Long answer: Yeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssss!
The S in IoT stands for security !
I really need to get a shirt with this printed on it
Would love to see this self hosting demonstration. using usb, wired or wireless cameras in a unified solution (self-hosted)
we could even use openVPN or similar to watch the stream "online"
Unifi
Scrypted, blueiris, frigate
I just use motioneye with HomeAssistant. It's connected to cheap EZVIZ Wi-Fi cameras on a no-internet network via RTSP. I don't trust EZVIZ (Hikvision) at all, so those cameras just never see internet.
If it connects to a cloud service, it's watching you
Exactly.
Also, lest anyone should forget: There is no cloud. There is just someone else's fucking computer.
My restaurants owner covered up his "Camera" on his tv because he thought someone was watching him thru it, he started complaining that his remote didn't work after he covered over the camera.
My man thought his TVs IR sensor was watching him.
Give it time, one day he might be right…
I found it funny at first until I realized... no, that absolutely is a camera. Only a single pixel (and with a filter to only see IR light), sure, but a camera nevertheless xD
That sounds like a great way to prevent people from covering their cameras doesn't it, @@pieterrossouw8596? Just use the camera for the IR sensor. "Oh, you're going to cover the camera up so we can't spy on you? Well... Now your remote won't work. See how you like that!"
Your cell phone camera picks up IR already, by the way. Did you know? Go to your photo app, point your remote at it, and push a button.
Why does a TV have a camera in the first place!?!?!? What???
Are you talking about the IR sensor?
If you put a network-attached camera in your bedroom or worse, in your kid's bedroom, you're just begging for footage of your family to end up on the darknet.
Like seriously, it should be illegal for parents to put a camera in their daughter's room for a million reasons but this is definitely one of them.
0:17 l Linus caught in 4K
Riley momentarily being in a dark gray shirt and cleanly shaven had me wondering if there was a glitch in the matrix.
Think of it this way: Whether it's the indoor camera or the people in the walls, crawlspace or hidden rooms, you're never alone. This thought should comfort you at night!
I thank the wall people for keeping my walls free from rats.
I love how you're using Linus' camera footage as if you hacked into it lmao
I assume all cameras on a network can be hacked so I'm not dumb enough to put them on or in my own home. It's like paying to live in a prison. This modern paranoid obsession with putting up security cameras on every door and cirner is INSANE.
Not every camera can be hacked actually. Don’t connect it to the internet. And nobody can touch it
I bet you cry when your packages are stolen or if some breaks in your home and have no clue 😂
I know family that put them as pet cameras for when they're away, or on vacation. And one of them is a PhD in computer science, and does cybersecurity. Because a NAS-based approach is too much of a hacker risk, even when you control it. Or the cost savings justify it. The latter is fair, but the former if you properly roll your own can be ideal to cloud and backing up family photos and videos to external drives.
Or some people just want to know whats is going on when they not there, or to watch kids to make sure they are good while they are away, and many other reasons that's not for security. but ya its on the network, it is not the safest way of protection, but can still be helpful in some cases.
Pretty cool you don’t allow your phone on a network. It’s all about proper levels of paranoia buddy. Enable two factor. Local recording and you’re fine.
I got Amazon’s Blink cameras and Amazon’s plugs to where when I come home the power is cut, and when I leave they’re powered on.
My doorbell is the only camera and one of the few smart devices in my house allowed to connect to the internet purely trying to recreate the doorbell features isn't the easiest.
I have a reolink, which has SD card storage and I dont pay for the cloud features. It also advertises an RTSP stream on the network, so I connect that to my local NVR to record locally.
Other than a few devices like Alexas, TVs, etc. All my smart devices are not allowed to connect to the internet and can't communicate with any other devices on the network other than my Home Assistant instance and my phone (for set up & convenience)
If you're building a house, you might also consider installing wired cameras (CCTV).
Specifically an NDAA Compliant system. Unless you don’t mind someone in China watching you.
Nice continuity with the outfit change for the rerecorded part @ 2:41. 🤦🏼♂️ 😂
I'm amazed how many people value their privacy so low and cheap
A list of non-cloud cameras would have been helpful
Exactly. Also, an out of the box camera that sets itself up on your network for remote viewing would be pretty sick.
Setup the camera's LAN only, no online ports, then VPN in to view. As long as you trust the security of your LAN and your VPN you're good. Though that is the more complex DIY approach.
Yo that image of Linus that flashed quickly on the screen has got me dead 😵 🪦
Also some cameras support encryption look for that
I have Eufy so I assume Im being watched 24/7. Im too cheap to replace and it covers entrances so nothing I feel worried about.
Arrival and Departure times = Pattern of life.
Knowing this makes you much easier to rob.
@GeoBurress Rob what? My $300 TV? My Samsung Tablet? Maybe it's my super expensive 2017 gaming laptop 🤣. I live in an apartment that you need a fob to get in to start and out of all the people to rob they are welcome to take my old shit so I have an insurance claim and have money to upgrade
@@EarlsPearlsdevil's advocate, but people have been robbed for less. And they don't know what you have, so at the very least, you risk coming home to an apartment torn to shreds and your stuff all messed up/broken.
Your argument kind of reads like "Google already has all my information so why should I stop giving them more?" Kinda vibes. It's not that you have to actively fight back, just passively protect yourself is all we're saying! :D
@Kitteh.B Yea but in my 34 years of life I have never been robbed. If someone had the ability and time to hack my cameras to determine if I was home or not I think they also have the ability to know the car I drive and cloths I wear and realize this isn't a worthwhile target. What's more likely a decently smart person hacks my cameras and robs me or I'm robbed randomly and the cameras had nothing to do with it
@@EarlsPearls, it's not even limited to thieves, you know. Do you know about the giant data center in Utah that uses as much power as three mid-sized US cities? What do you suppose they're doing there? Working tirelessly to cure cancer? Designing the perfect economic system that will be fair and equitable for all of humanity? Probably not so much...
If you think you're not doing anything wrong and so have nothing to hide you're a fool. "Anything you say can and will be used against you..." and these days you're guilty until proven innocent.
I run a cheap secondhand server for my exterior cameras and my router is hosting a Wireguard VPN.This makes it so that I can access the live feed from anywhere without opening ports, I have my Wireguard setup on all my devices as a one-click button and then I can see my cameras instantly. 😊
"You watched till the end, wasn't that fun" I ALWAYS WATCH TILL THE END!
Around 10 years ago if I got really bored I’d take over someone’s camera and look around. Usually that made me more bored though.
took a screen shot of this im calling the cops right now. i have your post, your picture and everything, good luck.
@@BobStallmanArchUsernerd
@@BobStallmanArchUser 🤓
@@thehansr yes hahaha. i am a law abiding nerd.
@@BobStallmanArchUseryeah...as if they care...
I put a webcam on my 3D printer with 3rd party software just so i could see when the print was done from my phone. I didnt put a password on it and was shocked that random people would find my ip adress just to watch it. I didnt know there was a snooping website as pointed out in this video.
There is an entire subculture on youtube with "satisfying videos", of which the clips are often compilations of cnc-routers or 3d printers.
So I am not so surprised someone would want to hack into specifically _your_ webcam to see _your_ 3d printer :p jokes aside, I could actually see someone making such content use such a website to find such webcams to nab some free content to put into their vid xD
To answer the question; a resounding YES.
I just connect my camera to a smart outlet and set google home to turn the outlet on/off if I'm out or at home.
Think recording devices inside would need outside storage to keep footage secure in case you want to keep malicious actors against your property from deleting it/modifying. Also great for legal enforcement if that needs to happen. However, I wouldn't trust any technology I didn't have input for the Security Development Lifecycle.
Here's and idea for a video. setup up cameras with local storage on a separate LAN or VLAN, lock it down from internet access, set up a VPN tunnelserver and allow remote access to live cameras via that. Then you dont have to care if the cameras are compromised from the factory, because they can never 'phone home' or elsewhere
It's a camera... Yes
4:19 or worse, it's serial/sequencial meaning you xan just add/subtract 1 2 3 ...etc
Thanks Riley!
2:46 it look that guy like Austin Evans But 60 Years Old
If they are watching me it won't be for long. Those viewers will have mental scars lol
That single frame of Linus XD
That's why I just leave mine unplugged. No security issues then.
I think I'll stay without cameras in my apartment, well, except the ones in my vacuum cleaner
If it connects to the internet it's not safe.
2:20 You forgot about SHODAN's equally malevolent humanoid avatar, WAN-SHODAN
Fantastic yet again Anne.
Great video, this is very important stuff, I get tired of explaining to people LOL. Now I can link them this video.
I have a lot of cameras because I live in a neighborhood with a large drug problem. $400 in cameras (and my person vigilance) has saved me from over $10,000 in theft losses.
My Tip: Treat any area you install a camera as if it's a public space. If you're willing to treat some rooms in your home this way, okay. But don't go wandering naked or having wild games of Twister in "public spaces."
Have they just been a deterrent or have you caught people on camera trying to steal stuff. (and then actually had police do something about it. cuz allegedly they won't or can't do anything with footage)
Riley's shirt changes tell me the ecs is hard at work😊
That's why it's important to avoid Chinese brands, it's not just hackers to worry about, it's the CCP.
Show Dan! (How much we respect Dan Time)
0:17 lol
0:17 omfg 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Like these little excerpt style vids!
I always feel like somebody's watching meee.
"No relation to the malevolent AI," dude, SHODAN (the site) is named after it. Yes relation to AI, that's its relation.
Cameras belong outside unless you have some crazy kink house web TV show
Not mine, have my cameras all hooked up to a local NVR that I can privately access remotely. No subscriptions, no creepy spying
Is no one going to comment about Linus holding a plastic sword
So THAT'S what it was 😂
A Soft sword
@@cortbeanan elastic sword
ergonomic sword
Considering how often he drops things I'm not going to give him flak for actually holding something ;)
Before watching: Yes, the answer is yes. That's the whole point of a camera... ;)
As far as UPnP.. There are both cons and pros. Cons: #1 Open ports in the NAT router without asked first what the NAT router's control password is. #2 Maybe open on WAN Port depending on NAT router. Pros: As long as you have only one active (turned on and in use) game console (Xbox/Playstation), you do not need to use UPnP. But if you more than one and you have only one Public IP Address (as most people do not have more than one), good luck getting NAT Type 2 (or what ever it is on the Xbox) without the use of UPnP. Please note this is only based upon what I read/heard.
Lol.. don't comment if you don't know what you're talking about
NAT types are standardized. Not "whatever xbox calls them".
UPnP is a vulnerable mess. Turn it off.
Hackers with shell access to any one of your machines can exploit UPnP to forward any ports to any machine on your network
As intended
Who needs a camera in their house? Josh Kruger?
Is Your Indoor Camera Watching You?
Uh, yes that is the point of a camera.
Be Like Dave (Me) The Cameras Themselves Don't Connect To The Internet But The PC I View Footage On Is... If I Want To Check On My House I Just Remote Into Said PC (Custom Firewall Only Allows My Remote Monitoring Software To Access The Internet)
I Feel Safe Like This (Until My Parsec Is Hacked Or Something)
Sure !
Answer before i even watch the video.. YES. Never get a camera that connects to the internet.. You are never the only one watching it.
Just use a dummy camera to thwart idiots from breaking in. Who needs footage of an intruder when what you need at that point is a gun?
Next video: "Is alexa spying on you?"
Hey, kids. The cops can just pull the data from your cameras and they don't have to ask you.
so are you saying build your own cameras esp32s are gonna get spendy next
I never got why you need security cameras inside your house.
On the outsode i can early see whay, but in the inside?
If the thief is already in yoir house it is to late anyway...
I have a bunch only those wyze cams. Pretty bad customer support, not as good as they used to be
Why i only use cameras running my own firmware and running on a seperate isolated network and pointed at things that are not interesting like my front door
Entrances and outside cameras are ok but stay away from putting them inside your home 🤷♂️
Have you ever played watch dogs 2? They predicted this! Ring my butt.... I'm going analog. just a sail door.
Fun fact: Nintendo was recommending you open literally all ports for the best experience playing online.
Avereage consumer "Thank god we now have these cameras to keep us all safe!"
Camera manafacturer "I mean sure..if you like.."
Haha, that burned Zack in a non exactly related but directed manner.
1:53 Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but I'm pretty sure that if you don't have any ports open, you don't have internet access, or any kind of network traffic at all. HTTP and HTTPS require specific ports to be open to allow that traffic through and even file transfers over a local network require open ports on any devices with a firewall, such as your computer and possibly the router. Every service that uses a different port requires that port to also be open or that traffic doesn't get through. You can't just close all ports and have working internet.
The router assigns a random port for outgoing requests and keep track of that, the destination adress and port along with the local ip and port, so when it get a packet from that adress and port going to that port it knows where to send it. If it doesn't match, the packet get dropped.
If you "open" a port it send all traffic coming into that port to whatever device you specified.
Port configuration on your router refer to the ability of someone outside of your internal lan to establish and start a new connection.
Usually, what you describe it's traffic generated from inside your network, so router are "smart" enough to consent external service to respond your requests.
That's why you usually don't need opening ports unless you know what are you doing and you really need that port open (for example, you host a website and want it to be reachable from the internet)
Your router uses a mixture of PAT and NAT to figure out where to send packets too. As you are accessing a site, your router will trust a TCP connection initiated from inside your network and let that work, however if you want UDP, your device needs to UPnP or open ports explicitly.
when you visit sites, your device is the one to initiate a TCP request to the server on the other side, your router knows it's you starting it, trusts it and just lets the connection go through. You and the server can communicate and transfer the contents of the site before closing the connection or keeping it connected.
Off course they do
And dont forget that these cameras also have microphones 😱
"I don't care because i have nothing to hide"
right
When I'm home, I turn my Wyze cameras "off", which aims the lens at itself. When I leave, I turn the camera on.
That's enough nosleep for tonight. I'm on the edge of my se-WHOA..!
"millions of people have indoor smart cameras"
I didn't even know that was a thing.
What's even the use case for it?
Guess it's a necessity if you live in a crime ridden hell hole like the US or something where home invasion is a normal daily routine.
thats why i dont let my cameras on the internet
Imagine thinking those smart camera's are secure in 2023...
Also tape...
Short answer, Yes. Luckily I'm into that shit.
Id hope so
Thats what theyre there for
And if a hacker wants to see me in my birthday suit then thats their problem
Yes thats its work
Is that linus wit ha dild0
I know I'm asking the same question two 0:17
Well. it's official, in our reality, there's really no such things as privacy. We're FUCKED! Lol.
😂 0:18
I think having cameras inside your house is weird.
Recommendation: plug your indoor camera to the smart plug before plugging to the wall. Remotely close all the camera when you are at home and only turn these smart plug on when you are not at home
I simply remove them from socket when I am home. If there is a cable connected to a power source directly or indirectly I don't trust it.
Either way, weird that neither of these obvious options were presented.
tech i need help with my pc so you see my motherboard(pc) is broken is there anyway you can fix it by telling my sister?
This is why we don’t have bedroom cameras
ofc Hal is watching