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  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    411·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • seang96@spgrn.com
      17·
      10 months ago

      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.

        • seang96@spgrn.com
          2·
          10 months ago

          Unfortunately he carries his police officer gun everywhere he goes and had to brag about it by brandishing it for all to see when I first found out. Very punchable face. Also unfortunately I try to avoid all the places that uses his security systems but they are everywhere.

          I also don’t know how he does business because he has a tendency of not responding for weeks. My new employment was looking for security companies for a contract. Told my bosses about him and they didn’t want him after that, I also told them he often doesn’t call back when he says he will, and he never did.

          Fun fact someone “gave” him a manufacturing plant when COVID started. He had them make face masks for $5/unit.

          Also was given a restaurant prior to that. I just don’t get it.

          • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
            1·
            10 months ago

            Police officers can get in trouble for brandishing their firearms, on or off duty. It’d be a shame if someone shared a video of that behavior with his boss…

            • seang96@spgrn.com
              2·
              10 months ago

              Interesting… Pretty sure there were cameras where he was installed by his company haha. Imagine losing everything from being caught on your own systems.

    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
      9·
      10 months ago

      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.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
      6·
      10 months ago

      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.

  • Nik282000@lemmy.ca
    5·
    10 months ago

    Setup an instance of Zoneminder years ago and it’s pretty good. A old 2TB drive gives me a year of recordings on half a dozen cameras and it is totally free of ‘the cloud.’