Smart doorbells 'easy target for hackers' study finds.

[alastairstevenson]

I think we knew this anyway ...

Smart doorbells 'easy target for hackers' study finds

UK watchdog Which says consumers are at risk of having their home networks compromised.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[alastairstevenson]

Amazon UK's current number one bestseller in smart doorbells, the Victure Smart Video Doorbell, was found to send users' home network names and passwords unencrypted to servers in China.

Oh dear!

 

[David L]

Oh dear!

Just need to stay away from cloud based DBs...

 

[TonyR]

Just need to stay away from cloud based DBs...

Personally, I'd stay away from ANY device, camera, etc. that's cloud based. About the only thing I do with the cloud is back up some files and share some downloads, like IPCT's "Blue Iris Cloud."