<story><title>How criminals are using jammers, deauthers to disrupt WiFi security cameras</title><url>https://www.wxyz.com/news/how-criminals-are-using-jammers-deauthers-to-disrupt-wifi-security-cameras</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gmiller123456</author><text>I went with the wired network route.  I&amp;#x27;m sure to most people it seems like the more secure route, but it&amp;#x27;s important to realize that for outside cameras, you now have ethernet connections accessible from outside.  Jamming WiFi is a denies you the ability to record, but external ethernet gives them access to your network.  I went with building an isolated network, but I think that&amp;#x27;s outside the relm of what most consumers can do.  A WiFi camera, while not perfect, really does give you the best bang for the buck.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure we all know that most residential locks can be picked with relative ease, but criminals rarely go through the trouble.  The one time a person did &amp;quot;break in&amp;quot; to my house, they just opened an unlocked door.  Usually I keep that door locked, a large piece of plywood in front of it, and a table saw braced up against that.  Just so happened I worked on a project that day and just forgot to lock the door.  Lucky break for her, but trying enough doorknobs she was bound for find some.  She had gotten into two other houses that night.  She was also tripped out on meth and couldn&amp;#x27;t have operated a WiFi jammer if she wanted to.&lt;p&gt;So, yea, a WiFi camera isn&amp;#x27;t great, but it&amp;#x27;s still going to get 99% of criminals out there.  Next we just need WiFi jammer alarms.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>donkeyd</author><text>&amp;gt; So, yea, a WiFi camera isn&amp;#x27;t great, but it&amp;#x27;s still going to get 99% of criminals out there. Next we just need WiFi jammer alarms.&lt;p&gt;All we need is onboard storage to record a couple hours of video locally which can then be synced when the connection is back again. Right? That doesn&amp;#x27;t fix real-time information transmission, but video is most often important for finding suspects after the fact.</text></comment>
<story><title>How criminals are using jammers, deauthers to disrupt WiFi security cameras</title><url>https://www.wxyz.com/news/how-criminals-are-using-jammers-deauthers-to-disrupt-wifi-security-cameras</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gmiller123456</author><text>I went with the wired network route.  I&amp;#x27;m sure to most people it seems like the more secure route, but it&amp;#x27;s important to realize that for outside cameras, you now have ethernet connections accessible from outside.  Jamming WiFi is a denies you the ability to record, but external ethernet gives them access to your network.  I went with building an isolated network, but I think that&amp;#x27;s outside the relm of what most consumers can do.  A WiFi camera, while not perfect, really does give you the best bang for the buck.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure we all know that most residential locks can be picked with relative ease, but criminals rarely go through the trouble.  The one time a person did &amp;quot;break in&amp;quot; to my house, they just opened an unlocked door.  Usually I keep that door locked, a large piece of plywood in front of it, and a table saw braced up against that.  Just so happened I worked on a project that day and just forgot to lock the door.  Lucky break for her, but trying enough doorknobs she was bound for find some.  She had gotten into two other houses that night.  She was also tripped out on meth and couldn&amp;#x27;t have operated a WiFi jammer if she wanted to.&lt;p&gt;So, yea, a WiFi camera isn&amp;#x27;t great, but it&amp;#x27;s still going to get 99% of criminals out there.  Next we just need WiFi jammer alarms.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>varispeed</author><text>I had WiFi cameras until my friend showed me how his cameras were jammed when his neighbour had a broad daylight burglary. A van pulled up and a second later the video was completely jammed. Then five minutes later it comes back to normal, but neighbour doors were smashed in.&lt;p&gt;So I got a wired network now, on a separate LAN and have two cameras on each perimeter, so if someone tries to cut the cable (unfortunately I was unable to run the cables inside the wall, so they run in PVC pipes attached to the wall), I very least should have that recorded. Also all my cameras are 4k. The cameras also record to built in SD card. There are also two servers hidden each is pulling the videos from DVR to back up and then one copy is uploaded to external server.</text></comment>