That’s not vandal proof. What I mean by vandal proof is IK rated, like IK10.

Best I can find is https://www.hikvision.com/en/products/IP-Products/PTZ-Cameras/Value-Series/ds-2de2a404iw-de3-w-s6-/

You will have to set the camera pointing default to a non sensitive area, likely ground if you mount it directly above your doorbell, and only tilt up when it get some event triggers like motion (feet), audio (it does have a mic), doorbell (via home assistant), other cameras (mition alerts), or something else.

Vandal proof camera is easy to find, but with privacy mode? I don’t think such product exist yet.

Ops. Missed the actual details. Sorry. How small you want it to be? Any dimentions?

I agree mostly except the app. Don’t pretent Home Assistant doesn’t have an app.

add a vandal proof camera on top

Then I don’t see any problem for them just put down $50 more.

I didn’t say it isn’t legit nor I distrust automation, but I would like to see anyone operating an online shop paid for a cert to show they are honest and won’t diappear in thin air not delivering. Am I going to get back what I paid, properly not, but a basic DV cert isn’t expensive either for a business.

I don’t believe paid cert can’t use automation to keep certs upto date.

Proof: https://docs.digicert.com/en/certcentral/certificate-tools/certificate-lifecycle-automation-guides/automation-service-overview.html

Personally, I distrust any ecommerce site that uses any free cert. I see paid cert as a commitment to do honest business, as they need to have some records on the CA.

But for a blog or anythings other than ecommerce is totally fine by me.

Note: It is not about security, nor automation, but a show commitment (i.e. buying a cert), largely psycological.

What you think the modem can spy on by whom? Certainly not the ISP I suppose. They can already do it without the modem.

How to dispose that pulp then?

Photos are never a concrete representation of the reality. Photos are being pre-processed by image processor already and we also got Photoshop. One can even fake a film based photo if he knows what to do. The proliferation of image generation models and impainting models make the access easier but image manipulation tools always exist.

Is it really though? I would assume there would be automated systems that can do 80% of the job. It can be as simple as a USB key holding a portable executable that can run and connect to a remote system and report back the findings which the officer can just read the report in plain English. Training, of course, is expensive and rarely do so, but automation can get somewhere close relatively inexpensive.

Sorry. Data structures exists and uniformly random data is rare. Patterns still exists.

And deleted is a bad counter as deleted files won’t have a record in the file system.

That scanner is simply looking for high entropy data, and then report to its operator. It wouldn’t care if it is a drive or a volume or a file. If the entropy is high, flag it.

All random data have high entropy, same for encrypted data. The officer can see you have high entropy data then start throwing questions at you.

This community need better understanding of cryptography and how it translates to real world. Deniable encryption exists and does work on paper, but only on paper.

It is simply no hope aginst an automated scanner. No one search for files manually today.

The saving grace is it is licensed under AGPLv3 so community can take over if something happen.

Any source on this?

The point is they don’t have to proof if a piece of random data is indeed an encrypted blob.

Imagine you passing border security and got selected for search. They found a piece of data on your device with high entropy without known headers in the wrong place. You can claim you know nothing about it, yet they can speculate the heck out of you. In more civil nations, you might got on to a watch list. In a more authoritive nations, they can just detain you.

They don’t have to prove you hiding something. The mere fact of you have that piece of high entroy data is a clue to them, and they have the power to make your life hard. Oh you said you deny them for a search? First congrats you still have a choice, and secondly that’s also a clue to them.

For more info, read cryptsetup FAQ section 5.2 paragraph 3, 5.18, and 5.21. It is written by Milan Brož who is way more experienced than me on this matter.

IMO, deniable something encryption is just not practical in real life. Authorites can make you life real hard, or just throw you straight into jail, just by suspecting you have encrypted materials.