lol, do you know how many security cameras from other vendors are also open to unauthorized access? A LOT.

Yikes..... That is scary. The positive point is that services like this give me work and allow me to spend my days how I do yet still get the bills paid. Cameras with online access are simple, secure and really nothing more complicated than a basic website, but people just assume everything has to have a monthly fee and big company behind it.

Which is more secure? 50,000 individual sites with cam feeds out of homes or ONE site holding 50,000 feeds? It seems hacking one to access the many sure worked well for the hackers here.

Hint: Not everything requires a company and monthly fees....and what this company was supplying with the added feature of having hackers watch your intimate moments...can be done fairly easy if someone knows a person with functional knowledge of Web software and design basics. It's a shame so many were violated in the process of doing it the easy way.

Originally posted by pause4thought

Maybe we should listen to our intuition more often...

Very true, and in a day and age such as this that can not be understated.
Funny, I just changed my signature yesterday.

Who the hell would install a remotely-linked security camera in their home? 1984 anyone?

why is it that so many people wants their cable TVs or Satellite TVs cracked (or have cracked systems in their homes) and now some of those same people react in shock when the learn that a cheap security cam is also vulnerable to being cracked?

Originally posted by Dimitri Dzengalshlevi
Who the hell would install a remotely-linked security camera in their home? 1984 anyone?

My home is wired from a birds eye view, head level height and ground level height, some are visible and some are hidden, the level of surveillance also covers sounding property and night vision. The system is a custom unit from an old army buddy, its nothing remotely close to what is available on the market. Its a live feed, all members of my family have access to the system from their homes and my gf has partial access. You can actually talk into any room and give commands to seal and notify any local department. That then will dial and give specific details via a digital voice and leave the transmission open until it is deactivated from a physical family member. When activated all accounts within the system are notified and automatic recording across all acounts are active. In short, its one bitchin unit. Oh in case one replies what happens if a family member accesses it while i am at home. The unit must be set to "enabled" for it to receive external commands, the unit must be enabled from internal commands within the house, or after a period of non activity it automatically engages the system. You can say its similar to a banks hot safe unit. Am i paranoid, you betya, am i wearing my tin hat..always...!

Maybe outside the house, but never
inside.. I can not imagine putting them
INSIDE... I saw the ADT commercials
and thought the same thing.

I was like it could not be too hard
to break into those sources since
they are online. Here is just one
incident of the security flaws.

Now think if it was NOT a hacker
and someone WHO WORKED
for the company, who was nefarious
in there intentions.. You could have
a bad apple working for the company
able to look at all those cameras..
Not a good idea by any means for the INSIDE
of the home..