I live in a country all properties are walled by default, I have a camera pointed at my front door and one at my garage door and then other cameras inside around the house. None captures any neighbor, just a bit of my sidewalk in front of my door/garage door. Those cameras use coaxial cables connected to a DVR inside my house recording the footage on an HDD. No internet connection, no image being transported through Wi-Fi or Bluetooth... but also no encryption anywhere... how hackable are these?
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The video is focused on cloud/internet enabled security cameras. A security system that isn't internet accessible and only stores footage locally is not of any concern unless you think someone would break into your house to take the HDD's themselves.
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I'd be more worried about the corporate and state actors in your case. A criminal would have to already have intimate access to your home to snatch your video feed, so I wouldn't worry about that. If you do find a way to encrypt the video before saving to the HDD, that would protect you against police or insurance companies viewing the footage without your key.
ETA: Though, NOT providing the key may give them reason to believe you have something to hide and pit them against you. 🤷
Mine are wired and cloudless, on a separate locked down VLAN and I still barely trust them.
Supply chain attacks are getting worse and more frequent...
Thats what we've been moving to. It took a long while but i was finally able to convince my partner that ring cameras (or any cloud service) are a problem and a huge trade off for our privacy. We are moving to replace the doorbell and drive way camera's we currently have. Have any recommendations for wired cameras? I've got an older SAN i can repurpose for local recordings and a POE switch.
I've been using amcrest and have been happy so far. Frigate is a pretty good NVR too.
Security cameras keep no one secure. All they do is provide a memento of the crime after the fact. Just like locks just keep honest people honest.
You show video of your truck that's too big to fit in your garage, even if it weren't filled with all the crap you bought on Amazon, being stolen to a cop, and the cop will say, "Yeah, nice video. Do you know the guy? No? Neither do I. Sign here."