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eufy/anker are fucking useless.

https://community.security.eufy.com/t/major-flaw-delete-home...

I spent ~1 month full-time savings on a camera kit, cameras + base station. I was to be able to return the product for a refund (NZ law), I luckily found that thread within 24 hours of buying that SHIT.

p.s. don't confuse an existing good NZ law with our current inept government (i.e. we have a female Trudeau)

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That’s insane. My understanding is that if someone knows how to, they can destroy all of your locally stored footage by pressing and holding a button?

This seems easy enough to remove from the firmware and migrate to software, protected by some kind of auth layer.

A baddy gets the camera, holds the button for some time and that resets the camera (disassociates the camera from the base station). The recordings for that camera on the base station are now gone because they are encrypted and rely on the association the camera had.

Eufy refused to fix the problem. It was something that could have been fixed with a firmware update via its app.

It was a shame, the cameras were good but the product overall wasn't fit for purpose (due to their incompetence).

p.s. I use the term encrypted loosely, the mechanism could be as basic as a unique file name... whatever it is the association to the existing footage is lost.

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