Say hello to NSA
Say Hello to Nest Cam
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#22Say hello to NSA
But the burglars!!!! And bad nannies!!!! And bad housekeepers!!!! And I have nothing to hide!!!!
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#23So I guess Nests servers will become a very interesting hacker target.
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#24I was half expecting to see a stream of a guy stuck in a cave.
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#25So I guess Nests servers will become a very interesting hacker target.
I think Google's severs already are an interesting target.
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#26This is creepy as hell. Video saved to the cloud, owned/processed by Google? Yeah nope.
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#27My gut reaction is that I'll be paying money to install my telescreen? I have this slightly panicky feeling that my perception of what's acceptable sharing of private data is so disconnected from current popular sentiment that I'm becoming a bitter outsider. I'm sure it's technically well executed as expected from Google management but I do hope it bombs as a product for (to me) obvious reasons.
I had the same first reaction but would you have an objection if you only turned it on when nobody was home (purely to record intrusions)?
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#28Do you really need 1080p for detecting that a breakin is in progress? By the way, as a geek, I am more interested in hearing more about the back end detection algorithm. I guess that the linked page is a marketing blub...
No, but the higher resolution is useful for seeing the details of the person doing it, like possibly the face.
Enhance!
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#29And there is https://github.com/ccrisan/motionPie
Easy to install
Cheap because the hardware you need for that is a RasPi
...and you are in control of your data.
I'll stay with that. Even if the picture is not fullHD. I don't need that for the purposes described in the video.
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#30This is definitely a product there's a need for, but the creepy component is there for sure. Fortunately, there are cameras that run their own servers, without a cloud component. Plus, it's easy to firewall everything going in/out of their IP and put them behind a reverse proxy.
I mean easy for me, not the general public.