There’s a very good reason my cameras stay internal only and are blocked 100% from the internet. I can access them via the NVR with a Wireguard tunnel when I’m away from home if need be.
Same here; LAN only with a VPN to get into the LAN. There is no reason to send my camera feeds to another party. All that can come from that is trouble.
Thing is, Ubiquiti cameras aren’t cloud based. At least not to the same extent. The authentication system is cloud based, but the controller and storage is local.
You can pay for several years of a cloud subscription for the cost of either a NAS or a Ubiquity storage server.
In this case however, the device hosting your VPN, NVR and blocking the camera could be the very router someone unknown has admin access to. It could be trivial to unblock, port forward, and find the IP with that access. It comes down to the authentication security of the camera as last resort.
There’s a very good reason my cameras stay internal only and are blocked 100% from the internet. I can access them via the NVR with a Wireguard tunnel when I’m away from home if need be.
Same here; LAN only with a VPN to get into the LAN. There is no reason to send my camera feeds to another party. All that can come from that is trouble.
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I am still shocked that so many people are okay with cloud-based camera systems. It just seems like a security and privacy nightmare.
Granted, setting up a DIY NAS to host a server and store footage is a whole technical challenge for most people, but still…
Thing is, Ubiquiti cameras aren’t cloud based. At least not to the same extent. The authentication system is cloud based, but the controller and storage is local.
You can pay for several years of a cloud subscription for the cost of either a NAS or a Ubiquity storage server.
Ditto. “The Cloud” is just another name for somebody else’s computer which you don’t control
As always, relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/908/
In this case however, the device hosting your VPN, NVR and blocking the camera could be the very router someone unknown has admin access to. It could be trivial to unblock, port forward, and find the IP with that access. It comes down to the authentication security of the camera as last resort.