With IOT and a growing ecosystem of smart accessories around camera, software, hardware support has become another important factor to consider when choosing a camera. Camera brands will do well to be less proprietary and open up their source code to developers and accessory makers. Also a good reminder to set your camera's wifi password to something other than the default.
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Users must treat all their equipment as IT infrastructure, no longer as simple cameras. The introduction of IT also brings the complex topic of security to the cameras. Wifi passwords are just one small bit. As tests with Wifi CCTV have shown: the factory implementation of the embedded systems is at the security level where Windows 95 was 2 years after release. It has become an easy entry into the user's IT landscape. For photographers who are not familiar with IT topics it means they must get support here. Loss of data is loss of rice bowl, the cameras and equipment are not really relevant.
