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Nest to Bring a New Home Security Camera to Market

posted by martyb on Friday June 02 2017, @02:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the smile-for-the-camera dept.

frojack writes:

https://nest.com/camera/meet-nest-cam-iq/

Nest plans to bring a new camera to their lineup with 4k resolution and facial recognition. It appears the facial recognition actually takes place on Nest/Google Servers rather than on the camera. It seems like that feature could be extended to the existing camera lineup, but perhaps the higher resolution is required to make this effective.

Also included is a better WiFi antenna system in the camera to compensate for the fact that these cams are often placed at the edge of your WiFi envelope. MiMo moving out of the routers into the clients.

So how creepy can this get? Will Nest start federating the facial recognition from all its subscribers so you have names of people you don't even know as the arrive at your doorstep for the first time?

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by http on Friday June 02 2017, @05:04AM (5 children)

    by http (1920) on Friday June 02 2017, @05:04AM (#519212)

    They started out creepy as fuck; this was inevitable. While there's mainly only incremental extensions now, there is no theoretical limit. Whatever you think is too much, Nest can become more invasive than that.

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday June 02 2017, @05:24AM (4 children)

    by kaszz (4211) on Friday June 02 2017, @05:24AM (#519221) Journal

    It got an antenna. Supposedly it will only connect with the owners access point (AP). But I can almost be sure there's a firmware etc feature that will allow someone to connect directly to the camera from the street or neighbor. And the neighbors wireless can then in turn be backdoored.

    Visiting people will now take on a new aspect. Very much like "you are on hidden camera, smile!". And archived into the eternal alphabet soup archives.

    • (Score: 2, Interesting) by WillR on Friday June 02 2017, @01:09PM (3 children)

      by WillR (2012) on Friday June 02 2017, @01:09PM (#519333)
      Why bother with firmware backdoors and hacking the neighbors WiFi? It streams to everything to Google by design, the Three Letter Agencies can just watch your sexy times from there.

      • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday June 02 2017, @05:30PM (2 children)

        by kaszz (4211) on Friday June 02 2017, @05:30PM (#519459) Journal

        If you deny access to the internet for the camera. It might be interesting with a camera backdoor.

        • (Score: 1) by WillR on Friday June 02 2017, @06:36PM (1 child)

          by WillR (2012) on Friday June 02 2017, @06:36PM (#519496)
          Do nest cameras work if you block their internet access? Last time I looked (admittedly a while ago) they didn't talk to any recording server I could host myself, it was their cloud service or nothing.

          • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday June 02 2017, @06:45PM

            by kaszz (4211) on Friday June 02 2017, @06:45PM (#519501) Journal

            No settings or configuration? otherwise maybe you can fake a local machine to pretend to be a google cloud? Or just open it up looking for options to modify the firmware.