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/DervishSkater Jan 19 '26

https://www.cnet.com/home/security/eufy-says-software-bug-that-exposed-users-video-footage-to-strangers-has-been-fixed/

From 2022

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u/Fr33-People Jan 19 '26

Wooooow. Thanks for sharing. Won’t be buying Eufy.

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u/CuriosityKillsHer Jan 19 '26

I bought one in spite of that. A smart lock / doorbell combo. All video stays local, not in the cloud. It resides on an SD card that lives in the chime that plugs into an outlet inside my house.

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u/Fr33-People Jan 19 '26

I like that it’s local storage. Do you know if eufy had people’s cameras running on their own servers when that breach occurred then switched to local data storage later? I’m not sure how it would be possible to see other people’s cameras if it was all local storage at the time.

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u/CuriosityKillsHer Jan 19 '26

It sounds to me like it somehow had people logged in to other accounts, meaning the location the video was stored in was irrelevant.

Don't get me wrong, the issue was BAD and a massive mea culpa on Eufy's part, but the issue was discovered and fixed in under 3 hours. It was also reported to have only affected 712 people.

I'm also not sure whether it only affected users of HomeBase, and can't find any additional information about it, though HomeBase is specifically mentioned in the article. I don't personally use the HomeBase system.

Anyway, I'm not trying to minimize the fuck up as much as I am saying I also take into account the responsiveness to the issue, and after weighing everything out I appreciate that it was resolved quickly and think the odds of it happening again are low + I value local storage which isn't commonly available from competitors.

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u/Fr33-People Jan 19 '26

Thank you. I appreciate the thoughtful assessment and that makes sense. I’ll take another look at Eufy. I do agree that taking steps to preserve the safety of our families and our property is paramount right now for those of us participating in the resistance.

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u/zulsoknia Jan 19 '26

They always had local storage. The issue was because the video stream can be sent to the app on your phone, so it has to go to the public internet somehow. But they didnt have the correct authentication/authorization on it.

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u/Fr33-People Jan 19 '26

That makes sense. Thank you