CubitOomYour ring camera is being used to abduct your neighbors
Section Ratio GeneralGonna send this to my MIL so I don’t have to come to family gatherings anymore
Scott 🇨🇦🏴☠️Ring was ALWAYS a mass surveillance tool.
its by amazon, which they are likely using the cloud to store it and they provide aws to the military as well.
Common knowledge in a privacy community.
BlackmistAnd you know what they want to see?
Ballsacks and butt holes. Ding-dong motherfuckers.
You. I like your style mister.
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SonotsugipaaIt is a surprise to me, I didn’t know they weren’t doing it yet.
Ring has been giving police warentless access to video for as long they’ve been around. Its hardly news.
That was on demand though, not passively fed to Flock
cheers_queersold ppl.
So many modern technologies would be incredibly cool if they weren’t operated by untrustworthy people.
Okay but in that case, at least the ones you go on are different from the ones dropping bombs. You’re not enabling the bomb-dropping by getting on a plane
The airplanes that we go on are made by companies that also make the airplans that drop bombs.
If I felt it would be morally correct to profit from death and war, I would have been dollar cost averaging Boeing back in 2020. But no, I’m just a working class guy.
Hey I’m not saying getting on planes is unproblematic. But nuance is still important. Having a ring camera is specifically and actively harmful, and not doing it immediately improves things. The impact that any individual or a small group of people can have is magnitudes higher than by not flying. Things can be different levels of bad and pretending they aren’t doesn’t help anyone
You are right in that a camera that a fascist regime utilizes to ethnically cleanse its population is more directly harmful at a per consumer level.
However, you may be in denial if you think buying a plane ticket for a plane that is built by a defense war corporation, and submitting to facial and other biometric security checks by arms of the same fascist regime that buys weapons of war from the plane manufacture is not participating is some greater evil.
So many modern technologies would be incredibly cool if they weren’t operated by untrustworthy people.
The original comment above stands because it shows us how these cool, interesting, sometimes beautiful things can so easily be used for evil.
I am reminded of Miyazaki lovingly using airplanes in his films while also using his films to advocate for peace and stating that he could never really reconcile that airplanes are actually tools of war which his father helped build during world war 2 in Japan and which he attributes to the untimely death of his mother, yet he still loves them and wants to show them in his films.
But this is just one example of amazing technology being used for evil, I’m sure you could think of more.
This is the future. When tech was young, it was amazing and new and could solve any problem. Now it’s just about shareholders, profits, greed and now appeasing the talking orange in DC.
They must love being paid monthly for too. Or is the ring doorbell a yearly sub? 🤷
Paying for the device to be spied upon is one thing, but paying a subscription to be continuously spied upon is another.
Carrying it around in our pockets is another thing altogether…
Not advocating for Ring use but doesn’t enabling feed and storage encryption reduce/remove this problem? Enabling it seems to limit a lot of features that would be dependent upon an unencrypted feed.
As much as I share your position, sounds like everyone has as many questions as I do and no more answers.
WiddershinsMy doorbell doesn’t even work, let alone record anything. It works for me real well as a decoy for a working doorbell.
Yep almost all of these things are super sketch
It’s sad that it’s 2026 and tough to find a good ONVIF doorbell. Apparently the new reolink models require the reolink hub. I just want something local I can connect to home assistant that works well…
If anyone has recommendations, I’d appreciate them. Watched a lot of YouTube and a lot of conflicting takes out there where one review is terrible and another sounds like it must be sponsored with how much they love it.
Power over ethernet cameras to a switch connected to a zoneminder server.
This does require running the ethernet cable plus the server infra and managing it yourself but as far as I know it’s the best solution.
I use a TP-Link Tapo doorbell which only records video on-site (I have not subscribed to the cloud service).
As best I understand, as the data is hosted locally - TP-Link are unable to share video with Law Enforcement even if they want to.
I don’t see anything on the page saying the doorbell requires the hub, just that it works with reolink hub or reolink NVRs. The doorbell also has a n SD card slot for local storage. m.reolink.com/us/…/reolink-doorbell-battery/
Reolink Video Doorbell (Battery) - Battery Powered Doorbell Camera
Reolink Doorbell (Battery) is a 2K wireless doorbell camera with 1:1 expansive head-to-toe view, featuring person/vehicle/package detection, visitor notification, easy installation, dual-band Wi-Fi network, local storage, and two-way audio.
Amazon reviews were the first place I saw it and reolink even has a page about onvif doorbells where they say that the new model requires the hub. I don’t remember if it was all new models but pretty sure it was at least the new WiFi one since that’s what I’d need.
I will add, now that I have one, the only reolink doorbell that can operate an existing hardwired chime is the one that has a battery in it. I sent them feedback that this feature should be more prominent in the device comparisons for whatever good that’ll do.
The wifi one without battery won’t do it. I’m just going to move it to another door where that doesn’t really matter later when I buy the battery one next month. As it is, no hub is needed from my experience, though I did buy the 32channel NVR they sell. Thing takes up to three drives for a max of 48TB. Currently have a 4TB drive from bv-security in it.
This post is fantastic for 2 reasons:
It’s so important to raise awareness of how these ‘conveniences’ like the Ring Doorbell are being turned into the chains that will bind society
This post includes an in-image cite with both text url and a QR! This should be standard on any image post like this.
Well played.
Now you got me thinking of how the convenience of having a source url can be turned into the chains that bind society. Probably something around state controlled centralized DNS I guess.
switcherooI don’t have ring, but my neighbor on the left is Mexican, the one on the right is Romanian. The porno guy on the corner is something (he watches with the curtains open). The Russians down at the end are probably dealing drugs. There’s a sweet black family two down.
Bite my ass. I don’t know a single one of them, but you Nazi MFers aren’t taking them.
TrackinDaKrakenI live in NM. My neighborhood is half white, who I almost never see, and half Mexican/other immigrants who are quiet, kind, and helpful, and work jobs like everyone else. A few ICE assholes were in my neighborhood early on a couple of times, but I haven’t heard of anyone getting abducted yet.
On Nextdoor, my white neighbors believe only illegal immigrants are being abducted. I suppose that’s what Fox “News” tells them. Everything else is “fake news” and “AI” now.
Maybe we could design a sticker for the camera that explains that.
With the camera covered, it can still be used as a doorbell. And if they remove it, I guess we can’t help them.
fossilesqueI had a stalker, so I have had one I have not replaced. Any suggestions for something inexpensive and easy to set up? UK based.
Reolink
Ta, added to my shopping list.
Well yes, but an actual camera to purchase would be helpful.
I don’t have one, or any other corporate spy device inside or outside.
My solution to the door is to not answer it unless I know someone is coming over. Simple as. You never NEED to answer your door. If the cops are coming in, they don’t care if you answer, or not. Everyone else can call first.
dang, the mass surveillance device disguised as convenience strikes again! and of course a majority are also paying via subscription for even more “convenience”
My brother has one :(
I can’t think of a way of talking to him about it, which wouldn’t make him want to use it more.
It sucks when you have to live in a house, and the owner is alright with Ring.
LucidlethargyAnyone paying attraction knows Ring has been using these doorbells in full cooperation with politice departments for something like a decade or more.
If you didn’t know they were doing this, you need to pay better attention. Throw that shit away of you own one.
ohshit604Ring has been a subsidiary of Amazon for years now. They comply with warrants, and ‘emergency requests’ from law enforcement in some cases.
Installing one of these things and sending 24/7 video and audio data of activity on your property and anything else in the camera view has always been a wet dream for people obsessed with perfect information and surveillance.
The previous resident left one next to the front door of our place and it seems to work great without power or data. Never had a problem.