UPDATE YOUR FIRMWARE - Wyze Cam flaw lets hackers remotely access your saved videos ( * if they can gain access to your local network/WiFi )

[Customer]

To all the freaked out newbies frantically reposting links to the alarmist (and now sheepishly corrected) Verge article:

Did you pay your ISP for extra public IP addresses and make sure to grant them to your Wyzecams? Do you know anyone who ever has? Do you even know what that means?

There was no threat to anyone (statistically speaking anyway) and a cheap camera company chose to ignore it. No one was compromised.

And the old anti-NAT article linked above carries no weight at all in this context. None of this applies to a home user with a $30 router.

The myth that NAT provides any significant security in light of today’s sophisticated attacks needs to be put to rest. From a technical viewpoint, in fact, NAT provides:

No security to IPv6 hosts, as NAT is unnecessary for them.
No security for stateless NAT hosts.
No security for stateful NAT host outbound attacks.
Minimal protection for stateful NAT host ingress attacks, since modern attacks assume the presence of a NAT device and readily compromise or circumvent those devices.
No tools for responding to security attacks that routinely occur.

Wyze slacked and should face informed disapproval, not a bunch of scared people who were never for a moment under any kind of threat.