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On 2019-07-07, ~misfit~ <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. ;)

Good to see your post misfit.

THe real question which one will never know, is what the data allows the
other side to do.

Phil Zimmermann, once said it all about whom you can trust. So he wrote PGP
way back last century in 1991.

To-day we have no-one. Encryption has to rule okay! 

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    Re: cheap Chinese IP cameras Gordon <Gordon@clear.net.nz> - 2019-07-13 05:22 +0000
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