Good. They’re a hostile nation and we should reduce any trade with them as much as physically possible.
Wondered when this would happen. Hikvision systems are absolutely everywhere.
These knee-jerk “banning” of random products just strike me as odd.
This action is linked with a report by Big Brother Watch, the usual suspects group of pearl clutchers. Their report actually made valid points about the advances in TECHNOLOGY and subsequent loss of PRIVACY. The singling out of Hik and Dahua is the work of the UK.gov presumably under influence of the USA, whose own cctv manufacturers have been outpaced by the Chinese co.s. Hik UK is a registered UK co in its own right and it’s unfair to simply badmouth it in this way but still cash in on it’s tax revenue. The idea that a company that sells millions of security products to all types of clients is wasting its time embedding Spyware in them is delusional.
Why has this taken so long. There was concerns going back even as far as 2016.
Maybe I’m over simplifying this but how can a PoE or wifi connected camera be a security risk? These are the type of cameras used to build into your own centralised security system, there’s no use of cloud services or servers back in China, everything runs locally or to your configuration if external servers. Or do we really not even know what technology is in a simple PoE camera that could ultimately be calling back to China?
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Good. They’re a hostile nation and we should reduce any trade with them as much as physically possible.
Wondered when this would happen. Hikvision systems are absolutely everywhere.
These knee-jerk “banning” of random products just strike me as odd.
This action is linked with a report by Big Brother Watch, the usual suspects group of pearl clutchers. Their report actually made valid points about the advances in TECHNOLOGY and subsequent loss of PRIVACY. The singling out of Hik and Dahua is the work of the UK.gov presumably under influence of the USA, whose own cctv manufacturers have been outpaced by the Chinese co.s. Hik UK is a registered UK co in its own right and it’s unfair to simply badmouth it in this way but still cash in on it’s tax revenue. The idea that a company that sells millions of security products to all types of clients is wasting its time embedding Spyware in them is delusional.
Why has this taken so long. There was concerns going back even as far as 2016.
I wonder if concerns run even further back.
https://www.sourcesecurity.com/insights/hikvision-front-page-news-company-response-co-3425-ga-co-14183-ga-co-3978-ga.21589.html
Maybe I’m over simplifying this but how can a PoE or wifi connected camera be a security risk? These are the type of cameras used to build into your own centralised security system, there’s no use of cloud services or servers back in China, everything runs locally or to your configuration if external servers. Or do we really not even know what technology is in a simple PoE camera that could ultimately be calling back to China?