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kwikbreaks
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I've had a Foscam IP pan/tilt webcam for ages. A month or so back it just died for no obvious reason - lights on etc. but didn't go through the standard calibration routine on power up and a pinhole reset did nothing either.
I suspect this story may be the reason although of course it could just had died a natural electronic death.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37504719
Difficult to see what you could do to protect a webcam as I suspect the security on them is pretty poor.
I suspect this story may be the reason although of course it could just had died a natural electronic death.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37504719
Difficult to see what you could do to protect a webcam as I suspect the security on them is pretty poor.
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Don't let the thing webface by blocking at the router, use a VPN on your network instead if you want remote access.Science isn't exact, it's only confidence within limits.0
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The cheapo cameras, especially the knock offs, and even the xiaomi cameras 'call' back to a server in china. Seen this coming for years.
Saying that, unless your camera was accessible outside of your firewall and wifi wasn't used, its probably just a electronics issue.0 -
Yes I guess that is the way forward it just makes everything more of a hassle. Luckily my router can run a VPN itself - I use it when I'm on public WiFi.
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The camera that was busted was a proper IP camera not P2P and there was an open port used so that would be hackable. I didn't care about viewing as I just used it to monitor a drainage pump but if it was busted by hackers I'm guesing they tried to mod the firmware and failed.0 -
kwikbreaks wrote: »Yes I guess that is the way forward it just makes everything more of a hassle. Luckily my router can run a VPN itself - I use it when I'm on public WiFi.
Way of the world unfortunately, we have to lock up our cars, houses and daughtersScience isn't exact, it's only confidence within limits.0
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