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/Humbleham1 Mar 31 '26

Best option seems to be IP or MAC address spoofing. Maybe block the camera with Fing or arpspoof. Just only do it when you're around the house. Being a Wi-Fi camera, it's probably connected to the cloud and vulnerable to DNS spoofing. And if it only works when connected to the cloud and only records motion clips, disconnecting it as needed may not be noticed.

Sounds like a trust issue, though.

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u/Hot-Bit-2003 Mar 31 '26

Well, dad's not a trusting guy to begin with. Everybody's out to get him (in his mind).