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Chances are … they probably already do with a good percentage of them.
Many home owners who spend money on cheap security camera setups either don’t care or don’t know about privacy settings or securing their devices to the public internet. And some security camera setups are just cheap Chinese knockoffs that it’s probably easy to just hack many of them.
I bought a cheap Chinese no name camera a few years ago … it worked great for a year, camera stopped working so I went searching for an answer with the company … the company didn’t exist any more and all their customers including me were left with none functioning cameras that no one could or wanted to fix.
There’s a ridiculous number of cameras installed by people who know just enough to follow a port forwarding guide so they can access it from anywhere, but not enough that they care to change the default password.
Not just cheap ones. Actually probably less of the cheap ones. Ring has a long history - tens of thousands of cases - of giving police private recordings without any warrants or permission from the camera owners. Everyone who buys Ring is helping to build a police video surveillance network.
Chances are … they probably already do with a good percentage of them.
Many home owners who spend money on cheap security camera setups either don’t care or don’t know about privacy settings or securing their devices to the public internet. And some security camera setups are just cheap Chinese knockoffs that it’s probably easy to just hack many of them.
I bought a cheap Chinese no name camera a few years ago … it worked great for a year, camera stopped working so I went searching for an answer with the company … the company didn’t exist any more and all their customers including me were left with none functioning cameras that no one could or wanted to fix.
I know a guy who runs a security company and is a k-9 police officer. Brags about using his customers security cameras to help the police.
Do you punch him in the face when he brags about it?
Shodan.io is a goldmine of unsecured webcams and many other things.
There’s a ridiculous number of cameras installed by people who know just enough to follow a port forwarding guide so they can access it from anywhere, but not enough that they care to change the default password.
Not just cheap ones. Actually probably less of the cheap ones. Ring has a long history - tens of thousands of cases - of giving police private recordings without any warrants or permission from the camera owners. Everyone who buys Ring is helping to build a police video surveillance network.