[PLUG] Open Source - Home Security Cameras

[Tyrell Jentink]

I won't speak to the subject of hardware or recording software, because I
have no experience with either... But for cloud storage, just about
anything can store encrypted files. You can encrypt the video archives and
sync them to Dropbox, and there ain't no one watching them without your
decryption key.

And if you set it to auto delete at a sane interval, you should be able to
keep the total storage size on the cloud pretty reasonable (and in turn,
cheap) as well.

I would personally be tempted to NOT have a streaming server with
associated holes in my firewall, and instead rely souly on whatever cloud
service I ended up using to access the recordings. That way, IF you trust
the encryption on the files, the only security risk is equivalent to basic
web browsing.
On Apr 5, 2014 10:25 AM, "Guy Letourneau" <guy1656 at opusnet.com> wrote:

> On 04/04/2014 10:16 AM, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 05:33:41AM -0700, Guy Letourneau wrote:
> >> Because of the recent news (liberal fascism at Mozilla)
> >> I am looking for alternatives to Firefox and Thunderbird.
> >>
> >> Any suggestions?
> >
> > How about thinking it through?
>
> This question implies that I had not already thought things through.
> Yes, the political opinions are better discussed on plug-talk.
> Nevertheless we had 3 paragraphs from one political side, before that
> notion was addressed. Hmm.
>
> NEW QUESTION:
>
> Home security cameras and Linux:
>
> I often wonder about networked home security cameras with an ability to
> stream to internet or cloud storage in to preserve evidence out of reach
> of the miscreants harming one's property.
>
> The advantage of open source (in that it is inspectable by many
> disinterested persons) is that users can be more confident that there
> are either no software backdoors built in and possibly that if any
> hardware backdoors are discovered, that there maybe software patches
> which available to them.
>
> Otherwise you might get THIS:
>
> http://www.latinospost.com/articles/25613/20130815/video-baby-monitor-hacked-texas-foreign-man-who-called-toddler.htm
>
> So - is anyone playing around with home security using remote storage of
> surveillance video which is secure from unauthorized access?
> (Including where a lawful private citizen wishes to resist access by the
> data hosting company, or by lower levels of government?)
>
> - G
>
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