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The Fulu Foundation, a nonprofit that pays out bounties for removing user-hostile features, is hunting for a way to keep Ring cameras from sending data to Amazon—without breaking the hardware. www.wired.com/story/a-10k-...

wired.comA $10K Bounty Awaits Anyone Who Can Hack Ring Cameras to Stop Sharing Data With AmazonThe Fulu Foundation, a nonprofit that pays out bounties for removing user-hostile features, is hunting for a way to keep Ring cameras from sending data to Amazon—without breaking the hardware.

20/2/26, 1:15 am124 reposts358 likes

Teknowledge420

@teknowledge420.bsky.social

20 Feb

It goes via HTTPS encrypted packets and tokens on both sides. Hides among the standard heartbeats. I track it on my NTOP all the time. You can reroute most of the traffic, but the devices loses functionality since there’s something chaining it. Or de-platform and go Home Assistant.

Matthew 🦖

@moosewithablanket.bsky.social

20 Feb

That's really annoying, and it certainly makes it much harder to deal with.

Matthew 🦖

@moosewithablanket.bsky.social

20 Feb

Personally, it seems a bit ridiculous to have a home automation system of nearly any degree that needs Internet to work.

Teknowledge420

@teknowledge420.bsky.social

20 Feb

💯. I still have external Ring I’m replacing but others are ReoLink with a Hub that keeps it local, motion sensors inside, etc but even my Ecobee rerouted to work without it. My outbound is mainly Alerts to my cell. Power went out last night, I have backup and my systems were up. VPN remote securely