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by meow_catrix 621 days ago
”Analysts noticed that CCTV cameras in Taiwan and South Korea were digitally talking to crucial parts of the Indian power grid – for no apparent reason. On closer investigation, the strange conversation was the deliberately indirect route by which Chinese spies were interacting with malware they had previously buried deep inside the Indian power grid.”
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2Gkashmiri 621 days ago
link? i am close to CCTV retailers and dahua and hikvision are only brands of CCTV widely available with two exceptions of "cp plus" and "hawkvision" which are in all lilkelihood rebranded or made in china products.

https://www.amazon.in/s?k=cctv+system+4+channel

so what are your options? i have been contemplating getting a door phone + cctv for my home for the past so many years but problems like these prevent me from investing into an ecosystem.

edit: oh. looks like pager attacks has their attention now.

https://trak.in/stories/pager-bombs-govt-can-ban-chinese-cct...

i guess time will tell and then there is lobbying so yeah

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formerly_proven 621 days ago
> are in all lilkelihood rebranded or made in china products

IPVM did all the legwork on this a while ago and unconvered that, not that surprisingly, two and a half OEMs (including Dahua and Hikvision) are manufacturing essentially every not-completely-garbage CCTV camera coming out of china, and a bunch that very explicitly claimed to not come out of china.

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