They’re affordable and ubiquitous, but homeowners shouldn’t be able to act as vigilantes.

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[–] 171 points 3 years ago (6 children)

They don’t recommend them because of what the homeowners can do with them?

I’m much more worried about the fact that they’re a constant feed of activity accessible by anyone who can bypass or be let through Amazon’s access controls.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (4 children)

    And here I am with my Eufy cameras...

    In fairness is JUST bought the damned things right as all the drama was happening.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago

    Saying this as an ethnically Chinese person who is not being racist... I had a eufy robovac and when I discovered it was Chinese-owned and had a video camera installed on it... I immediately got rid of that thing. I don't trust any technology company owned by China to be able to see into my home.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    knowing nothing about the Eufy cameras, pros/cons?

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  • [–] 33 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It allows local hosting; however, thumbnails are sent through an unprotected, cloud based server where they were also cached. It was easily hacked a while ago, when someone figured out the file names, and their patch was to make the file names more obscure so they cannot be guessed.

    I bought them a couple of years before the hack, and shit hit the fan. All my cams are external, so the privacy aspect isn’t as high as those with them inside a child’s room or elsewhere inside.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago

    not just sent through, but indefinitely stored on the cloud server, despite advertising that it was not cloud-connected. It also generated facial-recognition based IDs for people which was also stored, and every single device could be connected to through an non-authorized connection request from VLC player.

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