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Matts1984 wrote: Mon Jun 08, 2020 7:53 pm But yeah, while no one wants to become part of a botnet and I'm hoping you don't have any cameras strategically placed near your showers, in the grand scheme of things we are low profile targets. Do your due diligence and you're fine.
Yep. If someone really really really wants to see live video of my side yard, they're welcome to it. No cams in the house, though.
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If your firewall/router supports it, check the logs. I had a cheap camera and, even though I disabled the Bonjour stuff, it connected to some weird place (Tanzania?). Logs are your friend. Most of the cameras I have seen contact a server on AWS (if you want to access it from the Internet), but who knows what controls those servers. We use VPN to connect.
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oldguy wrote: Tue Jun 09, 2020 12:54 am Once they have access to a network device like your pc, your entire network is vulnerable. The point of this exercise was to prove that ngrok is not a secure connection as you stated.
It's an https connection and users have to go through ngrok to even access a URL.

You can set up authtokens, IP whitelists, IP policies, etc etc. within ngrok and make it as restricted as you want. I think it's a reasonably secure means of access. Maybe not secure enough to guard the casino's cameras but for my needs it's sufficient.
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