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@catculation This has happened before and is a really big issue, but wouldn't some sort of network segmentation have helped prevent this especially as it's happened before?

I gave away my wife's Wyze camera and moved to Ubiquiti. It cost me a small fortune.

Not self-hosting at the moment but still, nothing can be as bad as Wyze, right?

Well as long as it's just briefly...

I am in the process of adding a couple security cameras and have been amazed that the majority of consumer brands essentially claim ownership of their customer's video content. They block access outside of their apps, charge for access and control of that video, and then fail to secure the video content they've claimed. It's another case of buying not equal owning.

Wyse, Eufy, Ring and Next have all had breaches of various kinds. Wyse took three years to fix major vulnerabilities. TP-Link has been sued by the FTC for failing to address router and camera flaws. Ring repeatedly provided video to law enforcement without a warrant. Even Roomba vacuum's video footage has been leaked by the company entrusted with it.

It is clearly much more profitable to ignore breaches and vulnerabilities than to prevent them.

Allowing any video to exit your home network and be stored by a corporation is just asking for trouble.