No - ssh is very easy to secure, while an exposed web-service is very hard to secure.
Theres no difference in the security of ssh without password and for example WireGuard.
I would enjoy this. Im barely 1/8 British but my other ancestors colonised large parts of north england so I think of them as our weird long lost relatives.
Most are not sending video to the manufacturers servers. More likely some milestone server here and there + cloud.
Most of them do have ML accelerators to do “AI” on the edge.
We use cameras from many suppliers at work, at least 3 that are chayna based. We do log their connetions, and see very little data ourside of fw/app update checks. Might be some sinister stuff happening but its not very wide-spread.
Maybe consumer stuff is different.
Edit: also consider bamdwidth. This is the reason most places record to local NAS or server. Our ipvpn woukd be filled if we was to centralize this
You should try moving the OneDrive folder after setup for a complete shitshow. Even Microsoft products fail to read and write to the right places. If I save from word to my documents folder it never appears in OneDrive but in a separate documents folder under my user profile.
Luckily OneDrive hides this from normal explorer so you can’t find that file using that