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by giantg2 2016 days ago
Some baby monitors are using "encryption". I don't know if they are actually using encryption or just privacy codes. Even if they are using encryption, I doubt it's very secure stuff (probably 8 bit or something).
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barrkel 2015 days ago
Our baby monitor uses DECT - it's basically a cordless telephone. While I wouldn't expect it to be encrypted to any significant degree, in most cases a baby monitor is either broadcasting silence with a little background room noise, or it's turned off. Once a monitor starts broadcasting noise, a parent intervenes.
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giantg2 2015 days ago
Some of them are even VOX so that it's not continuously transmitting.

I think the concern (fun for the scanner) was that if people leave the monitor on all the time and then have a conversation in that room.

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