Comment on LAPD warns residents after spike in burglaries using Wi-Fi jammers that disable security cameras, smart doorbells

• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The real answer is caching. Instead of writing video to the cloud live and losing all recordings during a wifi outage, it should just cash the last 30ish minutes in case of failure to connect to the cloud. Then once the connection is up again, it just uploads the cached video.

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  • ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    My cameras are PoE going to an NVR but you can also slap SD cards in them to record locally. I’m sure there are some wireless options out there with this feature included.

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    • FrederikNJS@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I have a few cheap cameras that can handle both WiFi and ethernet, they support an SD card, and they do continuous recording regardless of connection type.

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• jagermo@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There are some that have local storage in case wifi drops out.

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• iamjackflack@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I beg to differ not with that attitude. In most situations you can non permanently get a camera out a window or door without harming anything / risking deposit loss. Only where you have no windows near exit points and a windowless door. But even then you can still atleast have something internal to catch a break in (wired streaming to web).

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• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There’s no OSFA solution. Yeah, it sucks if you’re renting and can’t run cat 6 everywhere. All the same, you can still run a hard wired cam to a NVR/NAS in at least one location inside, but then you face the same difficulty anyone else does of securing the storage from theft - or you can have it upload to a cloud as quickly as is practical so you get off-site storage images and alerts of the theft.

  There’s a lot of opportunistic thefts near where I live. Honestly, the odds of actually catching a good image of the thieves’ faces are petty low. If they know enough to jam the wifi, they also probably know enough to hide their faces. The thieves in our area all wear hoodies and hide their faces somehow, so all you get is the alert that someone is there and an image of a hoodied individual.

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• conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Easy or not, wireless isn’t secure.

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  • Socsa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Neither is PoE when the thieves drop a bit of foil onto the local transformer with a drone.

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    • DrWeevilJammer@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m not saying this is what the backup batteries on my modem and in my rack are specifically for, but it would definitely prevent downtime from a Droney McTinFoil von Transformer scenario

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      • Septimaeus@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Droney McTinFoil von Transformer Optimus prime’s HS nickname

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    • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s a hell of a lot higher bar to cross than wifi.

      Wireless “security” cameras are never a good practice.

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• aviation_hydrated@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The landlord might have an incentive to protect their investment

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  • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Burglars stealing whole apartments over here.

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    • capital@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Can’t have shit in Detroit.

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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Honestly, if I’m renting, I’ll just get renter’s insurance and not bother with doing any security.

  As a homeowner, I’m going to do everything I can to avoid making a home insurance claim. As a renter, whatever, not my problem, the insurance can maybe sue the landlord for not securing things properly because it’s their job, not mine, to keep things secure.

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• SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Honestly super easy. I have a pet cam that records locally to an SD card and is accessible via wifi. A jammer wouldn’t stop the recording. Also like 30 bucks vs 50-100-200 bucks depending on which ring cam you get. Certainly not weatherized but good enough for internal monitoring.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Honestly super easy.

    Would you go so far as to say it’s barely an inconvenience?

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    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Wow wow wow. Wow.

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