I KNOW somebody in this community can win this money.
“Fulu’s latest bounty is for Ring’s video doorbell cameras, meant to encourage hackers and tinkerers to disable software features that require the devices to send data to Amazon. The reward is a potential payout of $10,000 or more.” https://www.wired.com/story/a-10k-bounty-awaits-anyone-who-can-hack-ring-cameras-to-stop-sharing-data-with-amazon/
They're probably rather motivated to brick the cameras, even for free…
@heidilifeldman It connects to WiFi, though set up an firewall at your router and block te ip to Amazon. With Wireshark or other software you can identify the datastream.
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I don't understand why these are not illegal in the EU.
The Irish branches of B&Q sell them.
@heidilifeldman Found it!!! JUST PULL THE PLUG!
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“The only winning move is not to play.”
For that money and the assumed effort to hack an assumingly tamper-resistant device, one would go further making a DIY platform with off the shelf components, that your local hackerspace could provide.
@heidilifeldman oh, yes please! Someone definitely needs to do this. I would love to jailbreak my devices and connect them to a home server only now that they are evil.
Preferentially, I would like to suggest that the owner shouldn’t have any control whether or not the data being transmitted by these devices are fed into the panopticon of the epstein class.
They don’t have the right to sell tracking data for anybody walking in front of their house. I’m sorry if an owner wants to sell the video data coming off of there camera off to the police so that they can track random people walking through the neighborhood. I have problems with that.
