Comment on Why We’re Pulling Our Recommendation of Wyze Security Cameras

NevermindNoMind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Nesola@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t consider this „paranoid“ at all.

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  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    sadly there are a lot of people who only care about immediate gratification that would call that paranoid.

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• krayj@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No, you’re not paranoid. I’d call it diligent.

  The premise of the statement you quoted is faulty to the core. A device internal to your home network knows a lot about the design of your home network and it knows a lot about the other devices on your network, and it can be used to facilitate/relay malicious access to your other devices if it becomes compromised.

  Wyze has always struggled with security problems…and I’ll admit that I do have several wyze cameras…but long ago decided their security was not trustworthy and created an entirely new virtual lan to run just my IOT stuff from. That, at least, reduces the exposure for some of their security issues. I certainly would never have interior cameras built by wyze - that’s too risky even with robust network security on my side of it.

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• SatyrSack@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They’ll be able to flash Morse code at you

  -… . / … …- .-. . / - — / -… .-. … -. -.- / -.-- — …- .-. / — …- .- .-… - … -. .

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  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    you laugh, but you can exfiltrate data out of airgapped systems by flashing lights

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    • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      He wasn’t laughing, he was overcome with a sudden craving for Ovaltine. He’ll be with you in a moment.

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  • kescusay@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I tried translating that, but Lemmy formatting has borked it. The first three words are “BE SURE TO” but the rest is not translatable.

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  • elscallr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They could also exfiltrate your information from inside your network and turn into ping flooding zombies

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• Rediphile@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Me neither. But building an entirely off-site video monitoring server is a bit over my head. So I just use cameras like this when I’m not home.

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  • Chickenstalker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Any security system hosted in the cloud is inherently unsecure or at the very least a privacy nightmare. Invest in being friendly with neighbours.

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  • gamer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Switch to Unifi. It’s enterprise-grade hardware and high quality software at consumer prices. If you know networking, you can set them up without connecting them to the internet while still being able to access them outside your network. If not, you can just use their free web portal to access your cameras. It’s probably easier than Wyze, and it’s certainly more secure.

    I don’t normally like to shill brands on the internet, but for these people I make an exception.

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    • olympicyes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I also use Unifi but it’s worth mentioning that Unifi Protect (current offering) requires an online Unifi account and a Unifi DVR, whereas the older Unifi Video required a local account and could be run on your own hardware. I like that my videos are not stored in the cloud, but I don’t know enough about how Unifi handles security to confirm that they couldn’t allow another user to stream video off your hardware directly. I’m not too concerned about the risk because I just use these for my front yard and it’s pretty convenient.

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      • gamer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Are you sure? I currently have an online account (because it was easier to give other people access and I too only have these watching my yard), but I remember when I first set it up in my home I was using a local account created in the DVR’s portal (a Cloudkey Gen 2). The web portal is hosted on the cloudkey, you can access it via any web browser, and the cameras will record to it without an internet connection.

        I could’ve sworn you could host the camera server without a Unifi DVR, but apparently not. The network stuff can be though. I guess that’s important to keep in mind, although I’d be surprised if they removed the ability to use the DVR without an online account.

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• sadreality@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Imagine a world where an adult person who has self respect feels need to coach his reason position like this...

  People are too willing to place shody spyware in their houses. I don't under how we got here, I guess cell phones?

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• Klystron@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hi paranoid, I’m dad.

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