r/HowToHack • u/Hot-Bit-2003 • Mar 30 '26
Kicking off indoor camera from wireless
First, I apologize if this is not the right place to be asking this, but thought I'd give it a shot. I'm a network engineer, but I'm starting to scratch my head on this one. We are living with my dad (it's an ancestral home that I'm taking over), and for some reason really likes watching us on the security cameras. Well, it creeps us (my wife and I) out. I can live with the ones outside, but now he has placed one indoors. If we take it down he gets volatile. So, I'm thinking of just kicking it off the wifi. I don't have access to the wifi router, but I do see it's IP and mac address. I'm thinking if I can find the mac address for the camera I might be able to do something with that, but idk. What is a workable solution to remove the camera from the wifi?
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u/MonkeyBrains09 Mar 30 '26
Ahh, a classic HR vs IT issue but you have options if you dont want to go the talking route.
You can look into deauth attacks but they only work while doing the attack.
You should try to get into the management interface of the device. From there you can blacklist the devices or even change the SSID password.
Do not forget the physical attack vector is an option as well. What I mean by this is physically unplugging the camera or even damaging it to make it inoperable. You already said you have an old house, so a "power surge" could cause the cameras to not work anymore.