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LAN Camera Review

Posted by timothy on from the please-mind-your-ps-and-qs dept.

xulphlux writes "The guys over at Tom's Hardware have an excellent review of 4 LAN cameras. While not currently commonplace as of yet, they have good potential for relatively low cost security uses. Keep an eye on the kids outside, your sports car out front, or the good looking girl next door... A couple even have built in 802.11b so no need for wires."

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  1. AXIS runs linux by bodin · · Score: 4, Informative

    If it is not clear enough, you should know that Axis supports the community and actually runs embedded Linux with features like NTP, FTP, SMTP and dial-up-when-triggered-by-external-switch and other nifty features.

  2. Uh by cscx · · Score: 5, Funny

    or the good looking girl next door

    Uhh... this treads into "pervert" land. You know, you could just try talking to her, I've heard it works sometimes. :)

    1. Re:Uh by nagora · · Score: 5, Funny
      You know, you could just try talking to her, I've heard it works sometimes. :)

      Yeah, the wife will like that just fine!

      TWW

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  3. are yiou nuts? by Lumpy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    relatively low cost? what?

    These cameras are at least 2-3 times more expensive than a regular camera and the required equipment to do it the regular way.

    These lan cameras are the way to install a horribly overpriced security setup not low cost, not by any means.

    These cameras are great if you have lots of extra money lying around and in your way, otherwise buy regular security cameras, they are much smaller, better built, and available in water/weather proof designs.

    Heck I even have a color/nightvision version in my back yard that is my most expensive camera and it cost $250.00

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  4. Warpeeping? by Hobbex · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How about rather than pointing a camera like this at the girl next door, you just give her one of the 802.11b units so she can secure her house, and then sit back and pick up the signal through your Pringles tube?

    I mean seriously, given it's notorious lack of security, isn't mounting a _security_ camera via 802.11b suicide? Broadcasting who is in the building out over the entire neighborhood seems _slightly_ counterproductive for burgulary protection (not to speak of privacy!) It seems to me that security should be the prime concern for any such purchase, yet I find little or no mention of it in the article (the D-Link unit mentions WEP passing, but we all know how great that is...)

  5. Privacy? by AnnaBlack · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Keep an eye on ... the good looking girl next door

    Hang on.... here we are on Slashdot, where every mention of possibly privacy-invading technology provokes an intense discussion involving civil liberties... and this phrase gets posted in a headline story?

    Just a little sexual politics for y'all - pointing hidden cameras at girls (or anyone else for that matter) is not nice. It's offensive. It's rude. It's an invasion of privacy.

    Anna B