I’ll link to my personal take on this, rather than retype it all here:
In short, I personally wish Wyze didn’t “fix” this. It wasn’t an issue (to me), but was instead a feature that thousands of us have been BEGGING them to implement INTENTIONALLY. Accessing the camera SD card files through our network is the 8th most requested wishlist item in Wyze’s history of THOUSANDS of wishlist requests. We’ve been begging for this to be allowed intentionally for YEARS, and just didn’t realize it was already possible, and now suddenly people are complaining that it was possible to do what we’ve been asking for and just didn’t know how to do it.
No strangers could access it. No outside hacker/criminal could access it. Only people you already allowed on your secure network could access it (assuming the people in your household are advanced hackers that could figure out what it took multi-million dollar dedicated security teams to figure out). Seeing the files that are ONLY accessible on my secure network is not a security concern for me, that’s a feature we’ve been BEGGING for. But that’s just me. I totally get that publications want to fearmonger and scare people with clickbait to increase their ratings…they have to make a living…but it is dishonest and disingenuous to all the people who don’t actually understand networking and computers and believe what the media tells them to be afraid of. It’s wrong what they’re doing to scare everyone.
But hey, there is now a huge opportunity to get a bunch of awesome low-cost Wyze devices on auction sites and marketplace classifieds from anyone who does want to give it all away cheaply. I’d love some free V1’s to add to my collection, especially if they still have this high demand feature enabled to allow me to access the SD card through my secure network…I would love that.