Ask Slashdot: Security Monitoring Company That Accepts VPN Video Feeds?

Posted by timothy on Sunday December 13, 2015 @07:00AM from the end-to-end-please dept.

mache writes: My cousin is finishing up a major remodel of his home in Houston and has installed video cameras for added security. At my suggestion, he wired up all the cameras to be on a separate VLAN that only uses wired Ethernet and has no WiFi access. Since the Houston police will only respond to security alarms if the monitoring company is viewing the crime in progress, he must arrange for the video feed to available to a security monitoring company. I told him that the feed should use VPN or some other encrypted tunneling technique as it travels the Internet to the monitoring company and we proceeded to try and find a company that supported those protocols. No one I have talked to understands the importance of securing a video feed and everyone so far blithely suggests that we just open a port on his home router. Its frustrating to see such willful ignorance about Internet security. Does anyone know of a security monitoring company that we can work with that has a clue?

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Rich People by Anonymous Coward · 2015-12-13 09:41 · Score: -1, Troll

Holy fuck. The absurdity that goes with American levels of wealth boggles the mind. Why not just not own shit that people want to steal? They are only things. Talk about being held prisoner by ones possessions. Materialism can go too far. This is one example.
Like the whole $110K H1-B thing. Insane. The rest of the world works twice as hard for a tiny fraction of that. I'm sorry, but your levels of consumption are just not sustainable. It will implode, then you will all start shooting each other yelling "I told you so!". Sheesh.