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:marseyrobber: How criminals are using jammers, deauthers to disrupt WiFi security cameras :!marseyhacker: :!marseykingcrown:

https://www.wxyz.com/news/how-criminals-are-using-jammers-deauthers-to-disrupt-wifi-security-cameras

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33087525


How criminals are using jammers, deauthers to disrupt WiFi security cameras

A new warning is being issued for anyone who uses wireless security cameras like «Ring» to protect their home. Earlier this month, the woman said her car was stolen from her driveway, and when she went to review her Ring camera footage, she realized hours were missing.

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Chris Burns, the owner of Techie Gurus, said security cameras that use WiFi to record are more about convenience than security. That's because WiFi can easily be disrupted, preventing the camera from capturing who is around your home, and criminals are catching on. «If you're relying on wireless as a security thing, you're looking at it wrong,» Burns said. Those crooks can use this like a WiFi jamming device, or a deauther, which can be the size of an Apple Watch.

A deauther will overwhelm a WiFi system, forcing the WiFi camera to stop recording if you stand close enough. They're also highly illegal, so jammers are more difficult to find, but a powerful jammer can prevent an entire street from recording on WiFI security cameras with the switch of a button. A spokesperson from Ring sent a statement saying, «Like any wifi-enabled device, WiFi signal interference may affect Ring device performance. » .

How can customers protect themselves?

«For true security, it should always be hard-wired, it should always be plugged into ethernet or something like that,» Burns said. Burns said as technology gets cheaper, it's likely jammers will become more popular and it's important to keep people fully-informed.

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Wait all these wireless cameras people brag about dont have any local storage? Theres no sd card it can mirror a couple days of storage on?

People deserve to be robbed if thats the kind of system they trust for security that all it takes is microwaving a hot pocket to completely disrupt your systen.

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Some of them have internal storage. Eufy does some like this.

The flaw with those ones is that the thief just steals your doorbell as well.

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They have a few GB of local storage by necessity I'm sure but you're locked out of accessing the camera memory, if the video doesn't make it to the server you can't see it.

Heavy rainfall and snowstorms also make wifi cams drop out.

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But presumably when they leave and take the jammer with them any failed uploads would retry right? Please tell me they would do something as obvious as that

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No, if it's gone it's gone. There's no provisions made for intermittent downtime or anything, it's just a gadget to sucker you into paying a monthly fee.

The Arlos are the worst. They don't even record until the motion sensor is tripped and then they try to start recording after establishing a network connection again. So you have like 3 to 5 full seconds before it sees anything :marseyxd:

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>bug sets off motion sensor

>delay happens

>get notifications in the middle of the night with nobody there :marseyveryworried:

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Lmaooo

You don't even know the half of it. The frickin cameras trip on anything and you're going to get like 800 push notifications from the app because a tree moved slightly or headlights reflected off pavement at night

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Oh so they dont even use actual motion sensors they're just trying to detect motion from the image then. Very high quality product

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The Arlos have basic b-word motion sensors, but all the other cameras on the market use image motion detection.

There are some REALLY good ones with :marppy: AI in them that analyze day to day patterns and filter out repetitive motion but they're like $2k+ per cam. Most everything else falses all the time constantly

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«Like any wifi-enabled device, WiFi signal interference may affect Ring device performance. » .

"We're fricked as a company but at least you can't sue us."

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>wifi

>security camera

:#marseyemojirofl:

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It never began for wirelesscels

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Can't you just steal these externally mounted cameras?

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Yeah they're just clipped in typically

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