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Victory! Ring Announces It Will No Longer Facilitate Police Requests for Footage from Users | EFF (www.eff.org)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

But you don't have to go sketchy off brand. You can get Ubiquiti if you want a really good system, or eufy or reolink if you don't want to muck about with the sysadmin stuff Ubiquiti requires

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, plenty of options out there. I have a couple cheap Chinese type that aren't plugged in on any regular basis. Neat thing is that the accounts are basically by serial number if I recall from back when I set it up, so with them off my trusted net and the data fed put through a VPN to home base they're functionally ghost cams without a location attached.

Plus they can record to local SD, so if the server goes offline in the future they can work like a dashcam at least.

[–] Buddahriffic 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can figure out approximate longitude and latitude using shadow angles and time of day/year.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah, but if someone is going to that much effort to track down your feed (assuming it was outdoors to start with) then you're probably under investigation for something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I've setup a Ubiquiti system. There are two things to know:

  • For the cost of local storage, you are going to spend several years worth of subscription fees
  • The login is still controlled by Ubiquiti's cloud system, which has had its own problems in the recent past

Now, I think those are acceptable tradeoffs, but I think we should be clear about its limitations.