There's plenty of DIY options out there that seem to provide the same quality and given everything we know about privacy and security on and of smartphones, I was wondering how people trust home security companies?<p>DIY is, of course, a matter of setup and maintenance time but I went into a shop that specializes in home security and the sales men made a very bad impression on me.<p>Any recommendations and maybe even proof that these companies are trustworthy, like open source software, that trustworthy friends, most of who don't believe in any other home security than big dogs, can check?
All my cameras use wired access to a dedicated VLAN with no access to any other compute/IOT devices.
I tried to pick a vendor that keeps the video camera footage in my country but that is something few vendors discuss and with the ubiquitous cheapness of AWS S3 it's hard to verify where your data is.
I also chose not to have any cameras inside the home as a privacy measure.
When using the web access tool I changed the default password and go through the users to remove people who no longer require access (house/pet/kid sitters)