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siyuan

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#304096 4-Apr-2023 09:56
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I'm always puzzled by articles like this, surely if there's genuine concern about security, make sure the cameras aren't linked to any cloud, or better yet, completely off the internet. I've personally used one of those brands, and I'm very happy with the quality and feature of their products, I'm sure they became popular for those very reasons?


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  #3059825 6-Apr-2023 16:36
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It's the standard yellow-peril scaremongering, the best example of this being Huawei and their 5G tech, which was, depending on which source you went with, between two and three years ahead of anything that US companies like Qualcomm had at the time. So the response was to nobble Huawei to give Qualcomm and other US vendors a chance to catch up. There's numerous other fields where China is way ahead, and some where the US can't even compete because only China has the tech for it.

 

 

The one thing about all of these is that no-one has ever found a deliberate backdoor in Chinese cellular switches or cameras. CESG in the UK have a full-time task force with full access to Huawei source code who have never found any of the supposed backdoors. The only thing we know is backdoored is US gear, so much so that the CEO of Cisco wrote an open letter to Congress asking that the NSA stop backdooring their gear since it was hurting sales.

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