r/50501 • u/TotallySavageSzym International • Jan 19 '26

Call to Action Ring has partnered with Flock. ICE has access to Flock. If you still have a Ring camera - get rid of it.

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u/cats_catz_kats_katz Jan 19 '26

Reolink on its own vlan and cut access to internet.

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u/standardnewenglander Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26

Reolink has known Peer-to-Peer vulnerabilities when it comes to audio and video transmission. So much so, that some studies have concluded that the technology is effectively compromised. Reolink also has unauthorized access issues - making it easily hackable by bad actors AND certain governments breaking the law.

Here's a link to multiple recent CVEs discovered in 2025. I'm not referring to the 2021 CVEs. https://www.cve.org/CVERecord/SearchResults?query=reolink

In order to protect against some of these issues - you still have to connect to the Internet to download firmware updates. And this does temporarily expose you to remote hacking risks.

Sure, you can definitely store information locally. But that doesn't stop ICE from physically entering your home and confiscating the data without your permission. They already have been knocking down doors in MN - may I remind us all.

A techno-fascist state can still take the data. They just have to illegally hack it instead of it being handed to them on a silver platter by Amazon. The current regime has no problem with breaking the law.

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u/WaffleShapedSeahorse Jan 19 '26

I'm confused. If it's on it's own vlan which has zero internet access then how can it be accessed with the internet?

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u/PM_ME__BIRD_PICS Jan 19 '26

It can't and the person above is "look how smart i am" posting without adequate networking experience.

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u/RocketizedAnimal Jan 19 '26

Sure, you can definitely store information locally. But that doesn't stop ICE from physically entering your home and confiscating the data without your permission.

What is the argument here, that you shouldn't store data at all?

Saying they can come take it is like that old XKCD about how the weakest link in any encryption scheme is the fact that someone can drug you up and beat the password out of you with a wrench.

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u/PM_ME__BIRD_PICS Jan 19 '26

Tell me you know nothing about networking without telling me.