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Amazon Debuts New 'Cloud Cam' Security Camera and 'Amazon Key' In-Home Delivery Service
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It’s also used for allowing guests or friends to get in to your house when you’re not there, or allowing the cleaning person or dog sitter entrance to your house. Not just for delivery people.
This is tempting... just so I can see the look on the delivery person's face as my dogs try to eat them for entering their home 
I have a porch with a second locked door to get into the main house so I like the idea of amazon delivering as I could just give amazon access to the porch. The camera system subscription seems expensive to me.
I would be all over letting them have access to my garage. Or a closed-in porch/sunroom like you're talking about. But inside my house, not so much.
Friends and family is fine. But their big push is delivery. I know I have a new UPS guy every week. Not like I know the dude on a personal level.
Even if you were right about Apple leaking user info (and you're not), how many celebrities do you know of that use(d) an Amazon Fire phone? Maybe we'd have stories of them being hacked if anyone actually used them.
Apple is sitting on roughly 1.3 BILLION iPhones sold, and close to 1 BILLION iCloud accounts. It makes sense that occasionally some of those belonging to famous people would be the target of a phishing attack. Meanwhile, the remaining 99.999% of users were unaffected by Apple's "leak".
The in home delivery service gives people piece of mind ?
Firstly I’d be worried about delivery persons, bored with their jobs, going through my wife’s underwear drawer. Secondly, how long until they hack those locks?
it’s a scary world we live in - a world where we exchange common sense for convenience.
Firstly I’d be worried about delivery persons, bored with their jobs, going through my wife’s underwear drawer. Secondly, how long until they hack those locks?
it’s a scary world we live in - a world where we exchange common sense for convenience.
When you lie or pretend ignorance to "prove" a point, you lose your credibility in future posts. Nobody will believe you.
iCloud didn't leak anything. Celebrities gave up their passwords.
Porch?
What? I know that in the US things like that happen more frequently, but it is NOT the only logical consequence.
In Germany your parcel will be routed to a post office or the courier's stores and you'll pick it up there.
Or a neighour receives it for you, signed for if included in the shipping option.
Also, the problem really isn't mostly the driver who will lose his or her job for one slight attempt to be smarter than a strategically pointed camera.
The problem is that now a delivery equals an opportunity for a thief to manipulate the door or rob the driver and roam around the house without anyone at home with 100% of the time of engagement spent on looting and leaving.
This will generate headlines like crazy.
What good is it when a masked thief is on my security camera's virtual tap if the police need 5 mins to get there in a city with good policing? (don't even think about small remote villages)
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A huge difference though is that Arlo and similar cams have no wires at all, and run on batteries. For me this is a huge plus as I can place them just about anywhere. The Cloud Cam, while wifi, still needs to be plugged in for power. The Cloud Cam price is attractive compared to true wireless cams, but not so much against wifi cams that need to be plugged in for power.
Mike
You should check out the WyzeCam that was just released earlier this week. It has surprisingly comparable features (minus Alexa integration) and it only costs $20! Ordered one just yesterday. No affiliation by the way.
https://www.wyzecam.com/
- 1080p full HD
- Live streaming
- Night vision
- Motion detection alerts
- Smart sound recognition (for smoke alarms)
- 14-day free cloud storage!
- Continuous recording
- 2-way audio
- Time lapse recording
https://www.wyzecam.com/
Tempted to replace the old security DVR we currently have with this or something similar. That thing is a piece of crap, and nobody makes anything better. But what matters is always in the details you don't see in their ad. For one, I need to make sure Amazon's device will actually record the entire duration of a movement activity.
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I love this. People are freaking out China is making a voice print database of their citizens and spying on them. Google and Amazon are getting customers to pay to do that and even more with video and keys to the house.
These services are a lot more trustworthy than the alternatives: random embedded DVR systems with software made in China® with known backdoors.
I wouldn't give them a key, but that's mostly cause people never take off their frikin shoes when they enter.
Depends, he ate the turkey? I'll let it slide, the Boar's Head roast beef? That's criminal charges.
I bought Dropcam (now Nest) when it first came out. I bought the "pro" which was advertised at 1080p.
But they did a bait and switch. It was a 1080p camera but on their website the quality of footage being captured was not 1080p. I've actually been unhappy with them after all that and I think I'll be giving this Amazon system a go. It's less expensive and offers more.
But they did a bait and switch. It was a 1080p camera but on their website the quality of footage being captured was not 1080p. I've actually been unhappy with them after all that and I think I'll be giving this Amazon system a go. It's less expensive and offers more.
Or you could just buy a FireTV, Roku, etc. it amazing how much better those work with a full featured remote. Way more features available on those versions of the same app (ie. SlingTv) than the AppleTV versions.
I love it. Come home to your safely delivered package and your computer and tv stolen. Or your pets got out...or they forgot to lock up.
I wanted to love the Arlo Pro, I really did. I tried it for months. But on batteries, the cameras are trash. The resolution is grainy (I have gigabit FiOS, bandwidth isn't an issue), but the biggest problem when running on battery power is that the cameras aren't always on. They turn on when motion is detected or when you wake it up from the app. This is a no-go for me (but totally understandable, otherwise the batteries would be dead quickly). There's also a significant delay compared to Nest cameras. For all of our cameras inside the house those aren't complete deal breakers, but for outside, there's no comparison. The Nest outdoor cam is way, way better (for our purpose). I had outlets installed outside just to switch from the Arlo Pros to the Nest outdoor cameras.