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| From | ~misfit~ <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> |
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| Newsgroups | nz.tech |
| Subject | Re: cheap Chinese IP cameras |
| Date | 2019-07-07 23:20 +1200 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <qfskif$65h$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <qfrsr4$pc6$1@dont-email.me> |
On 7/07/2019 4:35 PM, malone wrote: > > I've recently bought a relatively cheap IPCam (Techview) and assessed another one (YouSee). > > For both cameras it is necessary to log in to view the live stream. Fair enough. But this login > involves sending one's user id and password back to some Chinese server in the cloud which then > activates the camera. This means that it is not possible to logon without internet access. Perhaps > I'm a bit paranoic but it seems to me that when one sends one's user id and password to that cloud, > they would be able to see your WAN IP address. At the very least they can then see the output from > your camera if they wanted to. > > Why do they need to have this authentication in the cloud? Why not locally? > > I suppose I'm comparing this with the recent concern about Huawei sending information from their 5G > products back to China. Sounds dodgy to me - but then again I have an enlarged sceptic-area of my brain and a near-healthy level of paranoia. ;) -- Shaun. "Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy little classification in the DSM" David Melville This is not an email and hasn't been checked for viruses by any half-arsed self-promoting software.
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cheap Chinese IP cameras malone <malone@nospam.net.nz> - 2019-07-07 16:35 +1200
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Re: cheap Chinese IP cameras ~misfit~ <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> - 2019-07-14 00:23 +1200
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