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Victory! Ring Announces It Will No Longer Facilitate Police Requests for Footage from Users | EFF (www.eff.org)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How were cops able to access the video once they were given access. Isn’t that stuff E2EE? Is there a backdoor, or is it not always encrypted?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What made you think it was E2EE? I dont think any off the shelf camera system offers that

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Ring says they support E2EE. It looks like it’s off by default. Yikes.

https://ring.com/support/articles/mt13j/How-to-Set-Up-Video-End-to-End-Encryption-E2EE

As for other cameras, when I was looking at systems for my house, I saw that Arlo supports it.

HomeKit Secure Video cameras are also another good E2EE solution if you’re in Apple’s ecosystem. I love that HSV can bypass shitty third party apps, and the camera hardware can connect direct to a HomeKit hub, buuut HSV tops out at 1080p.