Sybertiger
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Food for thought...take out the names "Ring/Nest" and replace with other brands.
Yeah, I think there is a certain primal appeal to being able to see without being seen. Like, before security cameras, people would peek through a tiny slit in the blinds covering their window.Customers who bought the cameras in hopes of not becoming victims joke that instead they’ve become voyeurs.
Chances are if they are watching you on your "secure" network, they have been watching and listening to you with your phone's and laptop webcam and microphone also, we go to great lengths to secure our home network but ever take a good look whats running on your phone, ever read the EULA to some of the free apps that gather your contacts, and you give them permission to do so, give them access to your wireless network devices!! It free..Click Click.There's a fair number of folks on this forum who are installing cams inside the house. Perhaps most people only enable them when they leave the house but I betcha a lot of people just leave them running...after all, their network is "secure" and no one will ever in the history of the world be able to view their footage. I personally don't think inside cams are for me and I can tell you the couple of times I had cams in my home office closet I was setting up to test the girlfriend would close the closet door every time she came in to talk to me regardless of if I had a cam plugged in at the moment. ME: "hey, why did you close the closet door", HER: "because I don't want to be on camera inside the house".
The old version of voyeurism...I used to know a few people who'd like to go hangout at the shopping mall just to watch the people who were walking around. Back in the day before security measures some people would go to the airport to do the same thing. I think there's something inherent in a number of people who live in big cities; they like to be around a lot of people to see/watch and they wouldn't know what to do with themselves in the suburbs...maybe great candidate for picking up an IP cam hobby.
My concern isn't that weirdos are going to hack into my home network because I've taken precautions that will hopefully eliminate that. I just don't like the idea of if I croak my relatives or whoever takes over will review the footage and think "wow, Sybertiger sure did enjoy watching reruns of Married with Children in only his skivvies and just like Al Bundy had one hand in his waistband and the other with a PBR"...somethings just are not meant to be reviewed by others without permission...LOL!Chances are if they are watching you on your "secure" network, they have been watching and listening to you with your phone's and laptop webcam and microphone also, we go to great lengths to secure our home network but ever take a good look whats running on your phone, ever read the EULA to some of the free apps that gather your contacts, and you give them permission to do so, give them access to your wireless network devices!! It free..Click Click.
Great way to figure out/learn about the trends of humanity, sit back and observe. If you master it, you are able to tell more about any 1 person than they know about themselves.There's a fair number of folks on this forum who are installing cams inside the house. Perhaps most people only enable them when they leave the house but I betcha a lot of people just leave them running...after all, their network is "secure" and no one will ever in the history of the world be able to view their footage. I personally don't think inside cams are for me and I can tell you the couple of times I had cams in my home office closet I was setting up to test the girlfriend would close the closet door every time she came in to talk to me regardless of if I had a cam plugged in at the moment. ME: "hey, why did you close the closet door", HER: "because I don't want to be on camera inside the house".
The old version of voyeurism...I used to know a few people who'd like to go hangout at the shopping mall just to watch the people who were walking around. Back in the day before security measures some people would go to the airport to do the same thing. I think there's something inherent in a number of people who live in big cities; they like to be around a lot of people to see/watch and they wouldn't know what to do with themselves in the suburbs...maybe great candidate for picking up an IP cam hobby.