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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.

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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.
  • jaydeeuk1
    jaydeeuk1 Posts: 7,714 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud!
    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.
  • kwikbreaks
    kwikbreaks Posts: 9,187 Forumite
    edited 30 September 2016 at 12:18PM
    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.

    ====

    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.
  • 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 daughters :)
    Science isn't exact, it's only confidence within limits.
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