Comment on Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance
7toed@midwest.social 5 days agoHome assistant + frigate has been serving myself and my family on separate sites for about 2 years. It has definitely kicked my ass, but seeing “privacy friendly” reolink cameras constantly phone home on my firewall assured me it was worth it. Wireguard tunnel in and you have remote access with practically no security concerns*
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
2nd this configuration. My firewall rules block all camera external access and Frigate (once configured) is superb at detecting people without false alerts. It is disturbing just how much traffic smart devices try to send to China and Amazon even when not subscribed to cloud services. The open Wireguard ports appear closed to scanners so I’m also reasonably comfortable with network security.