[PLUG] Wireless video cameras?

[Chuck Hast]

OH yes, run your cameras on a isolated network. I never mix my cameras into
the LAN, the only point of entry from the outside (if you need it ) is the
DVR.
With ZoneMinder, you can make it pretty hard to access it if you want. Or
if you
just want local console, you can view from the DVR.

When I did security camera installs I put the DVR on a box hidden away some-
where and we used a "baitbox" older PC running all of the camera screens on
it located someplace so if the bad guys broke in, they found that device and
took it for the DVR. Running ZoneMinder headless is one of the great things
about that product.

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 8:35 AM, Chuck Hast <wchast at gmail.com> wrote:

> That is what I like about ZoneMinder, it is FOSS and it is your job to
> make it as
> secure as you want. I had an instance where I thought I had removed all of
> the
> PhPMYAdmin stuff from one (I had installed it to do some changes) I did
> not get
> a small piece removed and the bad guys got in through that, but they were
> not
> able to do more than call attention to themselves due to the fact that the
> file
> system would not let them do what they wanted to do. Now if I put
> PhPMYAdmin
> on something, I make SURE I remove the whole enchilada. A good firewall on
> it with proper rules will keep it clean.
>
> As far as the cameras, someone pointed out that even Wifi need to be fed
> with
> 12vdc (some are 5) If you try to run it with solar that is like putting up
> a big sign
> attracting the bad guys. Best if you can figure out how to get the cat5/6
> out to
> the camera and use PoE to power it, then you have only one cable going
> there.
>
> Also ZoneMinder captures the video as jpg files (you can use other
> formats) I
> found out that law enforcement realy REALY likes jpg images, as they have
> all
> kinds of tools to look at them with. The other formats not so much. After
> we had
> the breakin at the neighbor house, the sheriff asked if I had video, I did
> and I
> gave him the previous month, they came back and asked if I had 6 months
> worth (I did) I just gave them all that was on the hard drive, which went
> back
> about a year. The purps had been casing the place for about 6 months all
> told.
>
> The one that they saw in the video was known to the neighbor.
>
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 5:39 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 13 Mar 2017, Vedanta Teacher wrote:
>>
>> > www.krebsonsecurity.com just posted a piece of vulnerabilities in DVR
>> > cameras.
>>
>>    Which is why I asked if there are any known to be secure or that could
>> be
>> made secure.
>>
>> >  Personally I will not be joining the IoT. I'm doing this from memory
>> but,
>> > in the Mayan *Popol Vuh* (yes I have a copy & I've read it) the Maya are
>> > attacked by their household goods; chairs, tables, pots, pans, etc. With
>> > my cell phone & TV already spying on me & a leaky IP address I don't
>> want
>> > to add to the mix...
>>
>>    Don't forget your microwave oven! You want to be dressed when in front
>> of
>> it because it's taking your picture and transmitting it somewhere.
>>
>> Rich
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>
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>
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Chuck Hast  -- KP4DJT --
Glass, five thousand years of history and getting better.
The only container material that the USDA gives blanket approval on.