Reason I don’t have any cameras is the whole “I want to wholly control my data” thing. There’s just no good reason a “cloud” service can’t use Client-Side encryption, other than they want to leave open the possibility of selling you out.
What exactly is the “benefit of cameras”? I never had any “security cameras” and my wife would probably call a psychiatrist if I wanted one. Also, nobody I know has one.
I use offline CCTV for this reason. I’m hacking together an old IP webcam for real-time viewing my front door from my phone with open source software, but that’ll be view only, not record.
Someone throws something flammable at your front door (maybe even as innocuous as the classic “flaming bag of poo” prank. Nobody’s home to notice. Fire burns the house down. Prankster was careless and caught on camera. Do you get footage from a slagged CCTV system?
Just because there is a scenario where it won’t work doesn’t mean that it’s not useful. Every security system has some kind of scenario where it fails.
Yup, but if you can reduce or remove failure-cases without reducing security or making other sacrifices it makes little sense not to.
A system with local cache (hedging against Internet outages), batteries (hedging against power failures) and strong CSE (hedging against opt-out third-party access to your data) provides a significantly higher quality solution than something like Ring or even standard CCTV.
@theHRguy@lemmy.world
Reason I don’t have any cameras is the whole “I want to wholly control my data” thing. There’s just no good reason a “cloud” service can’t use Client-Side encryption, other than they want to leave open the possibility of selling you out.
The gov will just require them to add backdoors
Why not use CCTV and then you get the benefit of cameras without the cloud…
What exactly is the “benefit of cameras”? I never had any “security cameras” and my wife would probably call a psychiatrist if I wanted one. Also, nobody I know has one.
I use offline CCTV for this reason. I’m hacking together an old IP webcam for real-time viewing my front door from my phone with open source software, but that’ll be view only, not record.
@BanMe@lemmy.world
Storage reliability/off-siting.
Scenario:
Someone throws something flammable at your front door (maybe even as innocuous as the classic “flaming bag of poo” prank. Nobody’s home to notice. Fire burns the house down. Prankster was careless and caught on camera. Do you get footage from a slagged CCTV system?
Just because there is a scenario where it won’t work doesn’t mean that it’s not useful. Every security system has some kind of scenario where it fails.
Just put some NFS server with some storage pool duplication at your buddies house, bing bang boom dogshit arson proof.
@SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world
Yup, but if you can reduce or remove failure-cases without reducing security or making other sacrifices it makes little sense not to.
A system with local cache (hedging against Internet outages), batteries (hedging against power failures) and strong CSE (hedging against opt-out third-party access to your data) provides a significantly higher quality solution than something like Ring or even standard CCTV.