Migliaia di controverse telecamere di sorveglianza cinese installate in luoghi pubblici in Irlanda
https://www.thejournal.ie/investigates-hikvision-surveillance-6755381-Jul2025/
di Complex_Hunter35
Migliaia di controverse telecamere di sorveglianza cinese installate in luoghi pubblici in Irlanda
https://www.thejournal.ie/investigates-hikvision-surveillance-6755381-Jul2025/
di Complex_Hunter35
11 commenti
It’s the largest cctv manufacturer in the world. Even in other countries where they have been banned, they just sell to them under different brand names, it’s obviously the same camera models you can even still use the hikvison software with them. I guess the real issue is not with the hardware it’s the software itself, which should be replaced but probably isn’t. I think it’s pretty much impossible for other companies to compete with them given the absolutely mindblowing amount of camera’s they manufacture every month, they benefit massively from economies of scale, the cameras are ridiculously cheap and high spec.
So? Any action will be taken? Or expressing strongly worded concern is just enough this time?
Councils and other public bodies can’t just randomly exclude a distributor from a tender if they’re not doing anything wrong. If there’s no official government position on national security concerns banning the product, public bodies have no real grounds to act or make up their own national security policies.
This kind of thing come down to a lack of significant intelligence infrastructure for combatting cyber threats at a national security level. If there’s no real risk, we should be at least able to explain the reasoning that we concluded that’s our policy. Instead, we seem to just have no policy.
If there’s an EU concern about these devices, we shouldn’t be just brushing it aside. They could be avoided in critically secure areas if there’s some reason to do that.
Just because you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean they are not watching you.
This article is surely wrote in a way to inflame the issue for the reader
The ban in the UK is very limited and not relevant to most of the buildings talked about in it
I’ll bore those Chinese spies to death.
I mean there probably spying. But like we know for sure via the Snowden files that the US is also spying on us. But we’re still using plenty of American tech.
Is there any legitimate “threat” from using these vs using any other foreign supplier or is it just the usual case of China=bad?
Presuming we don’t have any domestic manufacturers so no matter who they’d go with we’re never having 100% control of the devices
I bet the password for many of them is still 0000.
If they actually detailed the security concern, it might help. I read the full article and I can’t seem to find anywhere that concretely details the technical security concern. I see another article where the Canadian government has ordered Hikvision Canada to cease operations and shutter the business citing national security. That’s pretty serious but again they don’t give any technical details. My opinion is its either its all political, or, the western intelligence agencies who have flagged this don’t want to reveal the details because it would give away techniques that they themselves use.
This is why “Closed Circuit” is important.