Comment by joshstrange
2 years ago
Ok but first people have to break into my wifi network. It'd be easier to break into my house unless it's a nation state actor which is not a threat risk I'm prepared to sacrifice enough to defend against. Also, my cameras are not on my main network, they are plugged directly into the NVR via long ethernet runs, they don't touch my main network. You are guessing that the NVR might have hardcoded credentials (which hasn't been proven).
At a certain point you are being overly paranoid and I think we crossed that line a while back.
Wifi is really trivial to break into and doesn't leave meaningful traces unless you really do some enterprise monitoring stuff.
Unlike breaking into your window, you are unlikely to get the cops to do anything if someone breaches your network. There's also direct and indirect financial incentive.
So now your entire livestreaming security setup depends on the security of your wifi network, which can be broken with $20 of dedicated hardware.
And yeah, if someone puts hardcoded creds into their cameras.. they probably do it for all their firmware. It doesn't even have to be malicious, it's just a lazy way to test and debug software.