• excursion22@piefed.ca
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    2 months ago

    Relevant video I saw posted elsewhere on Lemmy today.

    Tl;dw: Flock cameras are alarmingly easily hackable and many of their security and efficacy claims on their website are outright false.

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      2 months ago

      Ease of hacking isn’t even something I considered. I just don’t want my face anywhere on whatever server because a flock camera saw me

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        2 months ago

        After watching his first video, I spotted tons of cams capable of doing such surveillance (Hikvision, a Chinese brand, which offers surveillance as a Service, iiuc) on my country’s streets in Europe…

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      2 months ago

      As another dude with a family that loves storing their naked baby pictures on google’s servers… I feel you…

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    2 months ago

    How it has always felt being a religious believer

    Except, some gods don’t even respect your privacy within your house…
    Just like smart TVs and vacuum cleaners and other IoT toys.

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    2 months ago

    I used to get this real bad. Couldn’t leave the flat most days. I’d have my coat and shoes on, and would keep approaching the door and just couldnt leave. Sometimes I’d think I could hear footsteps in the hallway, and would have to wait by the peephole for a couple of minutes, then lose my nerve and go back to work up the courage to approach the door again. Just unable to open the door and break the seal between safety and exposure.

    Seek help if you have the option. It doesnt get better on its own.

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      2 months ago

      You mean because of people watching? I get this so much worse in the village than in the city, because village folks will remember and talk about your patterns, while city folks won’t.