Amazon Key’s camera may need a better lock.
The camera is meant to be the safeguard against any potential bad conduct by Key delivery persons, who are able to place packages in your house through the program. A vulnerability found by Rhino Labs and reported on by Wired , however, may call into doubt the ability for the camera to protect your house.
How Amazon Key works is a delivery driver comes to your house and sends an unlock request to Amazon. The company verifies the driver, package, and address is correct. The door then unlocks, and the driver places a package just inside the home’s threshold. The driver then sends a lock request and leaves. The whole process is meant to take seconds.
A vulnerability that the camera shares with all Wi-fi-based devices, however, can knock the camera offline, according to Rhino. If a hacker can get onto your Wi-fi network, and then send a deauthorization command script to your camera, it will stop recording. Rhino found that if a Cloud Cam goes offline, it sends its owner a snapshot of the last image it took when it was still online.
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