WHY BABY MONITORS?
The research presented focuses on the security of retail video baby monitors for a number of reasons. Baby monitors fulfill an intensely personal use case for IoT. They are usually place near infants and toddlers, are intended to bring peace of mind to new parents, and are marketed as safety devices raybaby. By being Internet accessible, they also help connect distant family members with their newest nieces, nephews, and grandchildren, as well as allow parents to check in on their kids when away
from home. They are also largely commodity devices, built from general purpose components, using chipsets, firmware, and software found in many other IoT devices.
Video baby monitors make ideal candidates for security exploration; not only
are they positioned as safety and security devices (and therefore, should be held to a reasonably high standard for security), but the techniques used in discovering these findings are easily
transferable to plenty of other areas of interest raybaby. Other products of direct interest to commercial and industrial consumers and security researchers commercial security systems, home automation systems, on-premise climate control systems) share many of the insecure design and deployment
issues found in video baby monitors.
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