On 02/07/18 09:18, Ed Greshko wrote:
I guess I'm not clear on how things are supposed to work. It sounded to me as if the
camera was uploading videos into their cloud and if someone wanted to view it they
would access the cloud and not the camera directly.
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Is that how the system works, video is constantly streamed when there's
no request for it? The unused stream is just system noise then. I would
probably need to disable the cameras 95% of the time. Presently I am
mainly interested in watching horses and donkeys in pasture when
requested by the viewer as opposed to some motion sensing scheme. Slower
video rates might help but that still seems unattractive to me. There
needs to be a means of sending video from the camera only when
requested, a simple on and off control. They already have up, down,
left, right, etc. I guess I need to know more about this ...
The system is Fedora 27, usually updated each day, and I depend on firewalld,
selinux, and the dd-wrt router firewall to provide security which seems to me to
make it a Fedora related question. I apologize if that is too broad an interpretation.
Right, your system is F27 but I didn't see where your system was interacting with the
camera. And, if things worked as I thought they would in that videos are getting
uploaded to the cloud and someone external to your LAN was also just connecting to
the cloud then there would seem little chance of a problem.
The problem could be if one accessed the camera itself from outside of your LAN. It
just seemed to me that wasn't going to be the case.
I think even in the case where a camera is made available to control
from outside of
your network the only compromised component would be the camera and the microphone if
it has one. So, potentially, someone could spy on you. I've not heard of an attack
where someone gains control of an IP camera and then launches an attack on other
devices like your F27 system.
.
About all I can do there is give them good passwords. There's nothing to
"spy on," Horses grazing and listen to donkeys braying, not much of
interest there. System attacks need to be prevented.
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Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
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