Looking to brainstorm here
So, a friend of mine is interested in getting this "security monitoring system" for their elderly parents. I've read about how Verisure uses fear to get paranoid people to sign up to their predatory fees for a year and not let you keep the equipment afterwards (either they take it, they brick it or it doesn't work outside their system).
I told my friend I wouldn't give them a dime ever, specially considering the possibility of people at Verisure listening/watching the inside of your house, and potentially thieves/robbers not having that much of a hard time disrupting the system.
They challenged me to get a subscription for myself and "hack it" in a reasonable way to demonstrate the flaws and they'd pay me the subscription plus up to 10 times that amount depending on the degree I can disrupt or control the system as a third party.
At first Im wondering if and how I could disrupt it without getting physically in touch with it.
I've read about jammers to disrupt the GSM/4g/5g signal and also the Wi-Fi, but all tthat does is stop it momentarily, and there's no guarantee it doesn't internally record shit and upload it later.
I've also wondered about burning the camera and/or sensors with a high powered laser from afar (2W pointer, can light cigarettes, might do the trick).
Other than that, being able to turn the camera off and on again at my convenience and/or being able to wipe the recordings would be good, as they believe the user has no control over this (seems very misinformed, I know), but I'm not so sure how much Verisure let's users control the cameras. An interesting gimmick would be to be able to edit the recording with a videoloop showing nothing and/or showing something ordinary happening when a burglar might be getting in.
Thoughts?