Backyard Nudists
This is a group for those who may be Home Nudists or those who cannot always get to a Nudist Colony, Camp, or Resort and therefore take things into their own backyard! Whether your backyard is private enough or not, perhaps you lay out nude, skinnydip, garden, or mow the lawn, this group is for you!
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Evolution of cameras, and knowing your neighbors
Return to DiscussionsSo funny story I want to share.
My wife and I have a jacuzzi in our backyard that we use ALL the time. Im talking in the morning with coffee and in the evening for cocktail hour. Oh and we go in the nude of course. My wife is not a social nudist so this is the only place we hang out nude.
So my neighbor has a dog run against the same wall we have our jacuzzi. There is a motion light for the dog that we dont mind.
Well they decided to put in the ring camera with flood lights to keep an eye on their dog. (Innocent enough) but the camera sits about 7ft high on the wall and can easily see a piece of our backyard. So now we have a camera pointed at our only sacred nude spot we have.
I mention this to my (self proclaimed never going to be a Social nudist wife ) I told her I want to tell the neighbors what we do but dont know how.
Well, without hesitation she sends a text to the neighbor wife and says can your camera see in our backyard, because we sometimes forget our bathing suits when going in the jacuzzi. The neighbor says just a part of it and they show us the frame. The next day in our driveways the husband neighbor shows me the frame and you can indeed see when we get in and our nude.
He says they dont mind nudity at all but are willing to move the camera if it bothers us.
To my surprise, my wife says, ah well I dont really care if they see me nude. So the funny part is I think I am the only one (the nudist) that seems to be bothered by this. But here I am writing this from my jacuzzi.
So the camera stayed, and I am free to be nude in my backyard without worrying if the neighbors see me anymore. All thanks to my non-nudist telling my neighbor ever so casually that we are nude in our backyard.
So thank you ring camera for giving me the opportunity to be open with my neighbor.
But I do have a question for you all. Do you think the communication would be different if I (the man) would have sent the same message?
The system at our house will be self supporting that can't be hacked into or out on the cloud for obvious reasons. We have company over I can easily turn off the cameras however most of our close friends don't mind. At my business it does not matter so much and it's a lot easier system to install.
My issue with home security cameras, trail cams and drone cams is that that they aren't being used for the purposes intended. Example... a person views their cam photo and spots a neighbor outside and nude. They call the police. The neighbor gets charged with being nude. This person was not a threat to the one with the camera. It was used for something other than security.
As a nudist I have no issue in being seen by anyone. I've been seen by many at ourcresort and nude beaches. The issue is the other person invading my right to be.
If you choose to use any internet connected 'home security' device be sure to check out exactly what it does and where it sends the data collected by it. So many have been found to be 'phoning home' in ways that were not disclosed in the main T&C's, if at all, and to be sending the data to 'authorities' that the user/purchaser had never agreed to having access to the data. Plus, they are very easily hacked, as are many other IOT devices. Things like Ring doorbells have sent out alerts simply because a person walking past them did not conform to the stereotypical 'acceptable' person programmed into the device. They are like Alexia/Siri connected devices, big sister/brother intrusions. They are not coming anywhere near my home. Who does your internet connected fridge or TV talk to behind your back? Quite possibly the same data brokers as your security devices; they know far more about you than you do. Purchasing these type of devices means that you are actually paying to give your data to them, not just your data either. If I visit you then my data is collected by them too and I certainly do not consent to that.
I'm not scare-mongering, I work in an area where data security matters, so I get to learn about a lot of this type of thing.
Nik is the guy I think to confer with Andy certainly not me as I have an IT guy always on standby and fix's what ever goes wrong or I screw up a setting. My house will not be wifi cams but rather hard wired to an indiscrete hidden hard drive. He already installed an encrypted computer back up he can't even view through his servers. That means he now has to come to my house media room to fix my ignorant mistakes or failures.
Wifi looks to be so much easier and cheaper to do. My choice for our home as I said before was for obvious reasons. I do just about believe any high school kid could hack a wifi cam system now.
...My house will not be wifi cams but rather hard wired to an indiscrete hidden hard drive.......Wifi looks to be so much easier and cheaper to do...../quote]
You're right Rock about wi-fi being easier and cheaper to set up and run; no wiring required beyond the router saves on the cost big time, but like cheaper options in other fields it comes with weaknesses.
@ Andy YW