Baby monitors and privacy
Search "baby monitor hacked" once and you won't forget it. Internet-connected cameras pointed at cribs have been hijacked, streamed publicly, and even talked through by strangers. The convenience of watching from your phone is the same door that lets someone else in.
Where the risk lives
The danger isn't the camera; it's the upload. To let you watch remotely, a monitor sends its video to a company's servers, and you pull it from there. That means your nursery footage exists on someone else's computer, protected by their security and their password practices — and reachable, in principle, by anyone who gets past them. Weak default passwords and leaky cloud accounts are how the horror stories happen. It's not that these companies are careless; it's that a stream that leaves your house can be intercepted, full stop.
The safest stream never leaves
This tool takes the opposite bet. It has no server: in solo mode the video and audio are processed only on the phone by the crib, and in two-phone mode they cross your own router in an encrypted direct link to your other phone — either way there is no cloud copy to leak and no account to breach. Even the pairing avoids the internet: the phones introduce themselves by QR codes held face to face, so no matchmaking service ever learns a camera exists in your house. The stream that "leaves" the nursery phone travels a few metres of your own network and stops. If you want watching-from-work convenience, that's still cloud territory — choose a reputable monitor, change the default password immediately, and know where the footage lives. If you want zero exposure, two spare phones running this, on a wifi that doesn't even need internet, is about as private as a camera gets.