For me it’s one less camera I have to run on my server that is already overwhelmed with the 12 other cameras that watch the outside. I have my wyze cams on sonoff minis that kill power to them unless I have my house set as away. I don’t need 247 recording of the inside just give me the option to peek in while away to see if anything is alarming.
Comment on Wyze says camera breach let 13,000 customers briefly see into other people’s homes
Diplomjodler@feddit.de 7 months ago
At this point I really don’t understand why anyone would put a camera in their home that’s connected to a server they don’t control.
ThePantser@lemmy.world 7 months ago
ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m sure I’m going to get some shit for this, but here we go! I own a wyzecam that I keep in (but due to lack of necessity will soon be removing from) my daughter’s room. We had it there just to check and see if she was asleep in her crib still without walking up the very creaky stairs/hall to her room.
It has pretty garbage resolution, has no sensitive information in frame, is not in a part of the house that anything can be overheard, and literally just shows a blurry image of our daughter’s bed.
I guess someone could theoretically sign in and…watch a 3 year old sleep? The worst case scenario I can imagine is someone using the speaker function to scare my kid, which would suck, but I think I can risk it.
PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Because zoneminder sucks and the other ones are kind of corporate and crappy?
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Zoneminder is damn good for the price. Mine has never had a data breach either. So there’s your downvote.
PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 7 months ago
When it fucks up, good luck fixing it without an os reinstall. That’s the price. Other than that it is damn good.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s really easy for me to fix it if it breaks, since I have full disk images of the microSD card it runs on in my RPi 4. You could do the same with any linux system for most types of disks with cloning tools.
teft@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Laziness. Most people don’t want to research everything needed to set up a self hosted camera system. Much easier to pop into Best Buy and grab a Wyze camera that works out of the box.
Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I wouldn’t call it lazy necessarily, everyone just has limited time and energy to invest in stuff and probably had no idea of the risks.
4am@lemm.ee 7 months ago
How do these people not realize that these cameras let other people to see into their homes?
This has happened SO. Many. Times.
thejml@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I really wonder how much everyday people care. Years back, people would give out their passwords for chocolate. Most people at this point have had their SSN’s leaked multiple times, all their PII is generally available somewhere, they use unencrypted SMS and email for financial transactions, etc… convenience is worth way more to the average person than having a few pictures of their house leaked. Even if they’re in it. It just doesn’t enter their mind as a problem. Last few people I brought it up to about their wyze or blink cameras just shrugged off the privacy stuff. (Though none of them had them in their homes, just external doorbell/driveway kinda cameras)
SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 7 months ago
So many cameras are left on the default password. On the insecam site they keep a list of cams where you can just look into people’s home, all hacked by using the default password. And it keeps happening.
agent_flounder@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I agree. It just doesn’t occur to most people. It takes a certain mindset to think about the worst things that could happen. Not everyone can think like a bad guy.
agent_flounder@lemmy.world 7 months ago
More likely people lack the time.
Besides, expecting a security camera company to provide a decent quality product that doesn’t suffer egregiously serious breaches like Wyze has is not unreasonable. Idealistic, maybe; lacking an appropriately enormous degree of cynicism.
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 7 months ago
Quite an unhealthy lifestyle.
Flying_Hellfish@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Don’t forget cost, I’m working on replacing mine, but a 30 dollar camera now being replaced by ones that cost around 100 each is just taking time. The ones I have outdoors I don’t really care about, but I’m working hard to replace all the indoor ones. For now all my indoor wyze cameras are on zigbee plugs that cut power when we’re home.