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 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.
