It took me far to long to figure out that there wasn't a prison for cybersecurity experts that was selling private videos
During the court hearing it was revealed that the same man had actually given an interview in Feburary 2019, in which he had demonstrated how simple it was to hack into wallpads - describing them as something that "middle schoolers with basic knowledge of computers can easily hack."
The company of these cameras didn’t fix their security issue for 5 years… How are those people not in jail too.
Yeah, anything after 6 months should be criminal negligence, and fines should start after a month or less.
While thats clearly fucked, its also a great example of why those devices should never be connected to WAN if at all possible
Anything with a camera or mic especially. My thermostat, don't really care
You could use thermostat data to get a record of when a person is and isn't in their home, which is also pretty sensitive information
Yup. I want a home monitoring service, but I'm too lazy to go wire up my house with Ethernet, and there's no way I'm buying anything Wi-Fi. I worked with cameras at work for years, and I know how awful their security is.
So I have no surveillance at home. I think I'm probably safer with no surveillance than insecure surveillance...
Whenever people ask why I physically block any camera in my house when I'm not using it, this kind of thing is why
I don't, but maybe I trust my Linux systems too much. That said, I unplug my desktop webcam when I'm not using it.
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