On: When baby monitors fail to be smart

[dragonwriter]

> I was literally about to say.. sometimes the dumb ones are actually worse as many of them are transmitting the sound and video over the air with no encryption either

Many of the smart ones both broadcast like the dumb ones and, separately, send a signal on wifi to a central server for online viewing, so they fully incorporate the problems of the dumb ones.

[shaftoe → dragonwriter]

This is a common problem in areas with multiple new parents: turning on your video baby monitor and watching your neighbor's cam.