I never understood willfully installing Big Brother in your own home on your own dime.
Alexa has already been compromised in a few different instances. Weirdos having full conversations with kids, etc.
Then add in the fact that systems from Google and Amazon are, well, owned and operated by these corpo giants with interests that don’t involve you other than harvesting your behavior.
You also make a very valid point about the cheap IP cams from China. I spent some time configuring a home system several years ago, and I couldn’t finish/make it operational. The security holes that I had no ability to close were astounding (like hard-coded, default admin passwords).
I never understood willfully installing Big Brother in your own home on your own dime.
Alexa has already been compromised in a few different instances. Weirdos having full conversations with kids, etc.
Then add in the fact that systems from Google and Amazon are, well, owned and operated by these corpo giants with interests that don’t involve you other than harvesting your behavior.
You also make a very valid point about the cheap IP cams from China. I spent some time configuring a home system several years ago, and I couldn’t finish/make it operational. The security holes that I had no ability to close were astounding (like hard-coded, default admin passwords).
It’s fascinating that modern oligarchy has been able to convince some people to wilfully replicate some elements 1984 in their homes.
In my experience (USA), it is magnitudes more than “some people”, unfortunately.
People read 1984 and thought, “Winston is my hero!”