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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Amazon Wants to Deliver Purchases into Your Home
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Monday November 20 2017, @12:05AM
Just a thought, why doesn't amazon figure out a better locker method? How about they lease space in apartment buildings for reserved amazon lockers? Then let the yuppies come in, grab their goods and take the elevators to their ivory tower. Private residences can install lockers in driveways or yards and grab their goods and go inside.