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The interesting thing part is this: "Hikvision has been expanding in the Americas where it now has 8.5% of the market, putting it in the No.2 position. The Chi
by thisisit 9y ago
The interesting thing part is this:
"Hikvision has been expanding in the Americas where it now has 8.5% of the market, putting it in the No.2 position. The Chinese government owns a 42% stake of Hikvision, according to a piece by the Wall Street Journal earlier this month on the security concerns of Chinese-made cameras being used in the US."
Article here:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/surveillance-cameras-made-by-china-are-hanging-all-over-the-u-s-1510513949 https://www.wsj.com/articles/surveillance-cameras-made-by-ch...
- knowsnothing 9y agoThey provide a large portion of cameras around the world
- draugadrotten 9y agoSurely their cameras and hence their operations are a prime target for the world´s intelligence services and organized crime. What is known about how the company deals with developing sensitive products in this very hostile environment?
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- freeflight 9y agoMost of these cheap Chinese cams suffer from the usual IoT issues: Security is an afterthought/hardcoded admin credentials [0] if the user even bothered to properly set them up in the first place. Shodan.io has plenty unsecured cams, from baby cams to security cams in shops [1]. Interesting way to kill a couple of hours, if you disregard the creep factor. As such I doubt worlds intelligence services, or organized crime, need to target any of these cheap webcam companies specifically. [0] https://www.ispyconnect.com/userguide-default-passwords.aspx https://www.ispyconnect.com/userguide-default-passwords.aspx [1] https://www.shodan.io/explore/tag/webcam https://www.shodan.io/explore/tag/webcam
- rtx 9y agoThey might get Huaweied. War through the internet is so fascinating and complex.
- sebleon 9y agoWhat does Huaweied mean?
- ghostcluster 9y agoChinese firm learns how the foreign firm operates it and clones its technology and practices, including any patented tech. Then the Chinese government changes its laws/policy to restrict foreign companies' access to the country's market to privilege the Chinese firm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei#Early_years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei#Early_years
- asclepi 9y agoI believe OP coined the term "Huaweied" to refer to a phenomenon described in another section of the same Wikipedia entry... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei#Espionage_and_security_concerns_in_the_West https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei#Espionage_and_security_... There are abundant parallels between the Huawei situation a few years ago and the Hikvision situation now.
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