Collaborate Disseminate
By Deeba Ahmed
Major Retailers Selling Video Doorbells with Serious Security Flaws, Consumer Reports Warns.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Unsecured Video Doorbells Sold on Major Platforms: Millions at Risk of Hacking
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Camera modules for the Raspberry Pi became available shortly after its release in the early ’10s. Since then there has been about a decade of projects eschewing traditional USB webcams …read more Continue reading Multi-Year Doorbell Project
As handy as having a smart doorbell is, with its ability to remotely see who’s at the front door from anywhere with an Internet connection, the off-the-shelf units are not …read more Continue reading Smart Doorbell Focuses on Privacy
What better way to ring in the new year than with [iSax Laboratories]’ charming little project that replaces a doorbell with a Maneki-Neko cat figurine to ring a physical bell? …read more Continue reading Ring in the New Year With This Cute Cat Doorbell
Doorbells are among those everyday objects that started out simple but picked up an immense amount of complexity over the years. What began as a mechanism to bang two pieces …read more Continue reading Minimalistic Doorbell Doesn’t Need An Internet Connection – Or Even a Power Supply
Fresh from the mediaeval splendour of the Belgian city of Gent, we bring you more from the Newline hacker conference organised by Hackerspace Gent. [Victor Sonck] works at the top …read more Continue reading Overengineering A Smart Doorbell
Researchers claim that not only are smart doorbells “unlikely” to have “any significant effect on residential burglary” rates, but they might actually increase the risk of burglary. Continue reading Smart doorbells may be signalling to burglars that you have something worth stealing
How on earth are you supposed to figure out whether that home gadget you just ordered is full of security holes or not? Continue reading Bzzzzzzt! How safe is that keenly priced digital doorbell?
In a kind of reverse twist on the doorbell, [TheStaticTurtle] whipped up a system to mute his computer’s microphone whenever someone opens the door to his room. He lives in France, where the government announced a strict lockdown last Friday. Like many university students around the world these days, he …read more
Continue reading Door Mutes Microphone to Prevent Remote Learning Humiliation
Many in the community are skeptical about the security of commercial smart home devices, and for good reason. It’s not like you have to look far to find examples of poorly implemented systems, or products that are abandoned by their manufacturers and left without critical security updates. But the design …read more
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