Vince, thanks for that. Now that I think of it, those Chinese cams (and DVRs) were used as bots during a recent DOS attack. The newer ones are supposed to be better, but who knows for sure?
Steve On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 10:42 AM, vince <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday, January 11, 2017 at 8:57:04 PM UTC-8, Steve2Q wrote: >> >> I know that there are commercial security cams that have their own >> software which enable one to log onto them from anywhere, but I assume they >> are more secure that just opening a port on the router. >> > > That would be a bad assumption. Many/most phone home to the vendor > (typically, China) if you let them talk to Internet outbound. > > My wifi camera (a knockoff Foscam) tries 3000 times/day to do DNS lookups > of a variety of sites including some in China in order to connect to the > vendor's site. This can not be turned off by the user. I block the DNS > from resolving, and also block the camera from being able to route > 'anything' off the LAN. Be very very careful you know what you're exposing > to potential bad guys when you let anything like a camera through either > direction. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/weewx-user/c1pH5r6Q37I/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
