Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries – smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire::A serial burglar in Edina, Minnesota is suspected of using a Wi-Fi jammer to knock out connected security cameras before stealing and making off with lots of loot. Such techniques are increasingly popular with criminals.
Add it to the pile of reasons to not use cloud based camera systems.
Local storage, with wired connections, or expect it to be knocked out intentionally and at random due to errors/problems outside your control.
The cloud is not the problem. Inadequate local buffer is the problem.
Wifi jammers could knock it out before the camera sees anything.
You cannot block a camera from seeing by jamming the wifi. It could simply save the video feed locally and send it to the server when the wifi is restored.
Unless they steal the router…
You can still just restore the network and wait for the camera to sync. Feed not lost unless too long time has gone by and buffer has wrapped around
The jammers don’t disable the cameras, they just prevent them from streaming the captured video to the recording machine.
If the cameras had a local buffer, they’d be able to keep recording even if the signal was jammed.
Until the cameras are destroyed, which is easier to do when they’re not streaming in real time
