Wyze security camera owners reported that they could briefly see feeds from cameras they didn’t own

Cameras connected to the public internet are such a bad idea.

If you weren't getting rid of Wyze devices before the Wyzecam v1 fiasco where they lied, this is a great time to do so. Unplug your Wyze stuff and hit 'em right in the metrics

Stop using cloud-connected cameras!!!!

Again????? This is the third time and of course the last two times they promised they'd rearchitect so it could never happen.

The fact that this can happen means that they or anyone can see your camera data at any time. There is zero real security or privacy.

This is why I’ll only use outside cameras. Almost no cameras are safe.

These fucking cameras and all like them are the bane of my existence. I'm an ISP repair rep. People lose their fucking shit if they can't surveil their fucking house for 5 minutes. "The Internet is down! Reboot it!" "Are you at home too troubleshoot?" "No! But I can't see my fucking cat vomiting on my couch from work!!!" Jesus fucking Christ, your house will be there when you get home. Fuck

If you're incapable of building a secure service, maybe you shouldn't be routing people's camera feeds through that service.

Your Wyze webcam might have let other owners peek into your house

IF you happened to be logged into Wyze's horrible web viewer during the 30 min things got screwy. Didn't this happen to amazon a couple years ago? I remember briefly getting someone else's cart/purchase history.

you never know this could be helpful for 4chan

As a child, I remember it was trivial to use Google to see through surveillance webcams that people from around the world had purchased and left unsecured and public on the internet. I hadn't thought much of it then, including how obviously invasive of their privacy it was, but I think it has left me with an awareness of just how little these systems should be trusted to protect that privacy. I have no trust in the system to protect my data from anyone.

They don't own the ones they paid for either, someone else is in control..

This is why I'd never use a hosted service for interior cameras, only exterior ones.

So I have a few wyze cameras but it isn't the end of the world as I specifically placed them where they would benefit me but i wouldn't care if cops got access to the footage (so specifically pointing at my front door, not the street).

But apparently amazon has both the coral USB dongles and yet another pi 4 that I really don't need on sale so... yolo, let's frigate.

Anyone aware of any good wireless outdoor cameras that play well with that ecosystem? Will eventually run ethernet for POE and the like but "eventually" is not any time soon.

Jokes on them, ours died a few months after their ~expiration date~ one year warranty.

Next ones are going to be plain dumb RTMP cameras over PoE cat6 feeding a local server.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Some Wyze security camera owners reported Friday that they were unexpectedly able to see webcam feeds that weren’t theirs, meaning that they were unintentionally able to see inside of other people’s houses.

A Wyze customer support agent confirmed to The Verge that this was indeed happening.

“Went to check on my cameras and they are all gone be replaced with a new one... and this isn’t mine!” wrote one user.

Each thread has comments from other Reddit users reporting similar issues.

“While we work to get this resolved, Wyze Web View functionality may be limited or unavailable,” they told me.

Wyze’s PR team didn’t immediately reply to an emailed request for comment.

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Why are people still using these?

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