Security cameras guarding Magna Carta are provided by a Chinese CCTV company whose technology has allegedly aided the persecution of Uyghurs and been exploited by Russia during the invasion of Ukraine, it has emerged.
In letters seen by the Guardian, campaigners called on Salisbury Cathedral, which houses one of four surviving copies of the “powerful symbol of social justice”, to rip out cameras made by Dahua Technology, based in the Chinese city of Hangzhou.
They have also written to the authorities responsible for the Parthenon temple in Greece, which is monitored by cameras produced by another Chinese company, Hikvision.
Cameras made by the firms have already been removed from sensitive UK government sites, over concerns that they could be remotely accessed by China and used to spy on sensitive sites.
Honestly, Id rather have China have access to my cameras than the USA. Any good replacements for Ring not based in the USA?
Any good replacements for Ring not based in the USA?
Literally any wifi enabled doorbell camera that keeps working when you block it from accessing the internet. Then just VPN into your home network if you need to access it remotely.
Ring environment is more than that and its a shit ton more convenient that they have battery operated outdoor cameras that are wifi enabled, door sensors, mention detectors, etc with batteries that’ll last a month on a single charge with easily swapable batteries. Literally the superior product but now I have to deal with Flock.
over concerns that they could be remotely accessed by China and used to spy on sensitive sites.
Sufficiently advanced paranoia is indiciferable from magic.
Is it using a subspace transmitter? because anything else is going to be easy to detect with a firewall.
Like I think the UK should use British made cameras to spy on its people, but the paranoia around China being pumped out is ridiculous.
Inb4 “Turns out all you need to ‘spy’ on them is Shodan” lmao.
It’s not like nation state actors (or APT:s working for them) would ever need to black-box hack their way into a network made up by cameras from a domestic company. They’d just put a gag order on the company and force them into handing over silent backdoor access. In order of preference: using an existing backdoor for LEO:s, adding a new one in a firmware update, or requesting all source code so they can develop an exploit on their own.
Reads like typical sinophobic US propaganda
