My concern here is why should I have to guess which action is being committed red isn’t the only color in the rainbow and I’m sure if they decipher actions with different colors it would make the consumer more comfortable. It’s not as if we are securing candy bars we are securing our homes our children as well as ourselves. So please tell them to help me make sense of their actions.
I’ve always thought that the cameras are pretty much always on. I can tell this because even when I have them theoretically turned off, if I turn off or on the light in the room I can hear the night vision filter (or whatever it is) click on or off inside the camera. Tells me the camera is always paying attention even when it shows Off in the app.
My solution was to replace my indoor cams with Cam Pan V3s which go into privacy mode when turned off. In this mode the camera pans completely down and only sees its own base. Given the camera’s viewing angle this makes it impossible for someone to be spying, at least through video. They can probably pick up the audio though.
People are watching you the cameras are not secured I saw on this website u can watch anyone camera around the world we are not safe
Wrong.
Yes, there have been a few rather limited security breaches, but you are implying that anyone can watch any Wyze camera at any time. That is just plain wrong.
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They definitely do
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Got source for that assumption?
I just been on this site this app b4 and people or watching other people cameras anything with a camera hole u r being watched believe me or not
They most definitely do I have informed them of this way before their security breach many companies are refusing to promote them because they do not take responsibility for their short comings they also know that it’s their employees that providing the breach in my opinion
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You have a right to your opinion and I have a right to mine
Please name this site or app. I would LOVE to be able to watch my own outdoor cameras from anywhere for free, and give the link to my family. I know lots of other people who have been BEGGING Wyze to provide an RTSP stream or webcam stream so they can share their cameras online to people for things like their bird cams, and all sorts of things like that. I’d also be interested in randomly looking in on my brothers’ cameras so I can tease them and joke with them about it.
And most importantly, if I can verify there is an app or website out there with my Wyze cams on there, I am totally going to figure out stuff about it and collect a bunch of money from the Bug Bounty program so I can get my name on the Bug Bounty Hall of Fame above @IEatBeans name!
Please send me any website or app that makes my camera or my extended family’s camera streams available to strangers. I am EXTREMELY interested in it and would sincerely LOVE to check it and even give my brothers free access to view their own cameras on their computers, etc from anywhere.
Though I am hedging my excitement by assuming this is not the case, particularly because nobody in my family is crazy enough to use recycled credentials and we all have 2FA turned on. But hey, if anyone is absolutely sure about a website or app that lets me watch ANYONE’s camera, I’m totally excited to go watch my cameras and my brothers’ cameras on there. Please share.
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All my cams face outwards. No issue for me.
There are a couple of these sites:
They show IP cameras that are not properly configured to be secure. Most owners of these cameras do not know their cameras are on here, as the service scans the internet and adds them automatically. It is legal however because the cameras are publicly viewable anyway, and owners can request to have them taken down (though just securing them properly will be better)
Wyze and other smart cameras are not on here, only port forwarded IP cameras that host their own little web server.
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Thanks. This could be fun. I enjoy traveling, real or virtual.
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Yes, that’s more what I was assuming was being talked about. They’ve been around for more than a decade, and like you said, sites like this don’t include cameras from Wyze (or most other major companies unless someone is actively intervening with their network to open up the stream in one way or another.
Even if someone posted something that was a list on the “Dark Web” then it would be easy to verify that it’s simply leaked credentials from a totally different site and someone just uses the same username and password for everything, everywhere. That isn’t another company’s fault nor bad security from the company. That is 100% on the user. It’s easy to either use a different password or turn on 2FA to make recycled credentials a non-issue. Even then, I know Wyze security monitors the deep web / dark web and if something is published for any rando to see, Wyze would easily just force a password update to all of those accounts, so the only way to get something would be to manually buy it yourself or buy a list from another company’s leak and try to test for recycled credentials and hope you hit the lottery before Wyze notices a brute force pattern and bans/disrupts it.
In the end, I think it’s just a misunderstanding. Usually if someone thinks all cameras are accessible online, they are thinking of something like Insecam, or heard rumors of horror stories involving the deep-web without understanding a lot of the technical context that disqualifies 99% of all cameras from being at risk that way.
A person really has very little to worry about if they always use a different password and use multifactor-authentication, as well as not putting cameras in privacy sensitive areas. This is why these things are repeated over and over and over again.
Still, the fact remains that if someone can show me otherwise: that my current cameras from several companies, that use different passwords and have 2 factor authentication enabled are available to any rando anywhere in the world 24/7 at a whim, I’d absolutely, sincerely, love to check it out and learn how they are doing that. Maybe someone with a pretty massive quantum computer is decoding the encryption or something.
Though if someone had some super quantum computer capable of bypassing any encryption or security they wouldn’t waste their time with something as financially worthless and trivial as camera security/encryption instead of something like penetrating bank security, Bitcoin private keys, other cryptoexchanges, government intel to sell, gov secrets, stock market manipulation, corporate espionage, blackmail material, infrastructure attacks, ransomware, weapon systems sabotage, social media intrusion, political influence, and more. Sneaking a peak at my cat litter camera would be worthless. Even looking in on 99.99% of the average person’s indoor cameras would be a complete waste of time compared to all the other options they could do with such a thing. Just saying…
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Ok i understand