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WHEN AMAZON LAUNCHED[sic] its Amazon Key service last month, it also offered a remedy for anyone—realistically, most people—who might be creeped out that the service gives random strangers unfettered access to your home. That security antidote? An internet-enabled camera called Cloud Cam, designed to sit opposite your door and reassuringly record every Amazon Key delivery.
But now security researchers have demonstrated that with a simple program run from any computer in Wi-Fi range, that camera can be not only disabled but frozen. A viewer watching its live or recorded stream sees only a closed door, even as their actual door is opened and someone slips inside. That attack would potentially enable rogue delivery people to stealthily steal from Amazon customers, or otherwise invade their inner sanctum.
Source: https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-key-flaw-let-deliverymen-disable-your-camera/
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 18 2017, @06:57PM (1 child)
TBH, I think there are better ways of handling the issue. Most of the time when packages are stolen off the doorstep it's because the thief views them as being valuable and they're small enough to pick up and run away with.
In most cases it would make more sense to have a personal Amazon locker on your doorstep connected to something solid. Or possibly, some sort of strap with an alarm if somebody other than the authorized user tried to remove it.
Sure, those aren't perfect, but rather than losing a single box, the Amazon Key system allows you to lose arbitrary things from inside your house if somebody manages to exploit one of these that's already installed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 18 2017, @10:03PM
Put your garbage in a Amazon box and leave it at the door.