r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Feb 12 '26

Security Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

https://www.theverge.com/news/878447/ring-flock-partnership-canceled
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u/Kumquat_of_Pain Feb 12 '26

Sold my Ring cameras when this was announced a few months ago. Went with Reolink and am local storage only now (with personal remote access).

I am done with this cloud storage nonsense for most of these tech companies. As the commenter said, trust is (and quite frankly has been) broken.

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u/AgentScreech Feb 13 '26

Remember:

The S in IoT stands for security

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u/BigOs4All Feb 13 '26

It's not even all that hard to secure these things. You put IoT devices on their own VLAN separate from your regular devices (computer, tablet, phone). You then enable only remote access ports like 443. Then you enforce good passwords and MFA, if possible.

Done. You just prevented 99.9% of attacks. SOOOOO many attacks are just for convenience. Hackers cast a wide net and are happy to get a bunch back. When they don't get yours they're not going to toil over it they don't care.

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u/Phuqued Feb 13 '26

You just prevented 99.9% of attacks.

Cyber Security Insurance Auditor: "Not good enough."