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<blockquote data-quote="NightShade" data-source="post: 2699702" data-attributes="member: 29706"><p>Just a side note on this. . . while IP cams "can" be hacked. If you run a system with two NIC's and set all your camera's on a separate network from the rest of the computers it gets a lot harder to even begin to mess with. Set a static IP for each cam and the computer's secondary card, the camera's would not have access to the internet but the computer would. If you only want the camera's to record and be accessible from in the place of use then there is no need to even hook up to the internet at all unless you are going to run updates or something of that nature.</p><p></p><p>You could use the same router and switches and have the router set to DHCP and manually set static for everything you want to be able to interface with the camera's. More than one network can exist on the same cables if you want to do a little work with it. Leave DHCP on for the everyday just hook up go and Static IP for everything else.</p><p></p><p>Even an old windows 95 computer is secure if it doesn't have a connection to the outside world or someone other than you sitting in front of it unless they come up with a way to hijack a computer wirelessly that does not have wireless capabilities.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NightShade, post: 2699702, member: 29706"] Just a side note on this. . . while IP cams "can" be hacked. If you run a system with two NIC's and set all your camera's on a separate network from the rest of the computers it gets a lot harder to even begin to mess with. Set a static IP for each cam and the computer's secondary card, the camera's would not have access to the internet but the computer would. If you only want the camera's to record and be accessible from in the place of use then there is no need to even hook up to the internet at all unless you are going to run updates or something of that nature. You could use the same router and switches and have the router set to DHCP and manually set static for everything you want to be able to interface with the camera's. More than one network can exist on the same cables if you want to do a little work with it. Leave DHCP on for the everyday just hook up go and Static IP for everything else. Even an old windows 95 computer is secure if it doesn't have a connection to the outside world or someone other than you sitting in front of it unless they come up with a way to hijack a computer wirelessly that does not have wireless capabilities. [/QUOTE]
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