I think the most primary thing of all is that, most people don’t have the means to run Ethernet cables to places that typical cameras are installed (doorbells and garage floodlights)
It’s a catch 22 though. Ok one hand, every single person in my neighborhood has multiple cameras on their property now and even when I lived in an apartment complex, everyone had a camera at their doorbell, but they all are usually ring or some other subscription based, phone home type.
Do WiFi cameras present a new attack vector, yea for sure. Is having a WiFi camera that could be disabled better than not having a camera at all (what was the reality 5 years ago), hard to say.
Fisch@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Every single person in your neighbourhood has multiple cameras?! Where do you live?
AA5B@lemmy.world 4 months ago
While it may not be strictly true, this is not difficult to imagine. Doorbell cams are ubiquitous, alarm companies push more and more each year, spotlight cams, solar cams, and other cams are cheap and have been at time “the new hotness”.
More importantly, the widespread use of motion detection even means you can monitor and respond to events.
PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 4 months ago
My neighbor posted a video on FB of someone running by and trying the door on their car. I could see my house and my cameras in the video.
PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
That’s like a third of nextdoor posts.