Dahua: all in one answer for home security?

tigerwillow1 said:
A nitpick, I think we entered this many years ago, and it's just accelerating faster. It makes me mad to no end, and the little bit I do to fight against it probably doesn't to much except make me feel good for a while. I'm one of the very few that pays for an email address with a smaller ISP instead of letting google, et all, scan everything I sent and receive. I disconnected the wifi module in the TV that has a camera (and don't connect it otherwise of course). I saw the danger of amazon and microsoft long ago and refuse to be ensnared by them. But now it feels like a losing battle. Places like Home Depot and Walmart have gotten just as bad as Amazon in collecting abusing data. It used to be that credit card transactions at a store were between you and the payment network, but now the stores can skim who you are and fatten the databases they're using for profit. I'm starting to think the time is coming when you won't be able to buy anything anomalously with cash, with the stores having cameras at the registers.
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Put noise in their systems. Go into Lowe's right before closing and buy trash bags, nitrile gloves, a bunch of plastic disposable drop cloths, and a few gallons of bleach, with cash.

Also, big fun can be had in Lowe's with a Flipper Zero in your pocket. In Minecraft.
 
The Automation Guy said:
I get that.

I guess it all comes down to your client's expectations. If you get a phone call every time their alarm system isn't working correctly because the system lost connection with the cloud for some reason outside of your control, it still becomes "your problem". Not only will you spend a lot more time having to take these types of calls, your customer's opinion of your company is going to rely in large part on this cloud connection - again something that is totally out of your control.

So while you might build the best plank ever know to mankind, if your customers can't access the plank due to internet or Dahua server issues that are completely unrelated to the quality of your plank, they are still going to blame you and your company and potentially smear your company's name for issues you have no control over.

Furthermore, WHEN Dauhua decides to shut down this cloud server, your company is going to blamed because you sold them "a pile of worthless junk". Best case scenario, this happens far enough in the future that you are long retired and/or sold the business, but this is an end result that is unavoidable IMHO.
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Post in thread 'The Typical picture of a Perp on Nextdoor-type Apps with Consumer Grade Cameras like Ring, Nest, Arlo, Canary, Wyze, etc.'

Example #6,423,211 of Why Depending On The Cloud For Anything Critical Is Pants On Head Ree-Ree...
 
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