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sasas | 3 years ago

E2E encryption is supported with Ring. You have to enable it yourself. Only discovered this a few weeks ago and immediately enabled it [1]

This doesn't protect your PII data though. This is not a good situation at all.

[1] https://support.ring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360054941511-Unde...

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phpisthebest|3 years ago

There are also some pretty extreme feature downgrades to enabling it. Main ones for me if I was a customer would be

Limited notifications,.loss of timeline feature, inaccessible on desktop and other non-mobile platform

sasas|3 years ago

Definitely some tradeoffs there. I recall going back and forth in my head "I'm paranoid, I don't need to enable this" to "what if there was a breach..".

and well.. here we are.

api|3 years ago

Run your own camera system with Blue Iris.

johnklos|3 years ago

That's a nice idea, but Blue Iris in particular, while being affordable and while not requiring a subscription, only runs on Windows. Keeping a Windows system running 24/7 is a whole chore in itself.

Got any suggestions for OSes that are easy to secure and easy to run 24/7?

CommanderData|3 years ago

They should be required by law to provide offline access to your stream, RTSP or something similar.