Vumacam responds to US allegations that they use Chinese spying tech

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US concerned that Vumacam uses China-style spying tech — here are the facts

Vumacam has hit back at claims made by US lawmakers in a resolution proposed by certain members of the country's House of Representatives concerning its use of Hikvision cameras.

The resolution calls for President Joe Biden to thoroughly review the relationship between the United States and South Africa based on our close ties with the Chinese government.
 
There's no expectation of privacy in public areas.
 
If Biden let's these hacky congressmen get away with this, it'd be a bad move.... that'll send South Africa squarely into the arms of China, right now we still have a chance, bit it's stupidity like these cheap political crap that strains relations. I mean they just swallowed whatever some "investigators" said and went with it to Congress ....do your research before sending in a bill.
 
Mr CEO of vumacam must seriously not understand state surveillance. Especially by a totalitarian state like China, there are no laws, they don't even need to "hack", they ask they get.
 
Kawak said:
Mr CEO of vumacam must seriously not understand state surveillance. Especially by a totalitarian state like China, there are no laws, they don't even need to "hack", they ask they get.
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As if the USA is not totalitarian..
 
Polymathic said:
There's no expectation of privacy in public areas
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Kawak said:
Mr CEO of vumacam must seriously not understand state surveillance. Especially by a totalitarian state like China, there are no laws, they don't even need to "hack", they ask they get.
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Dude this isn't China, these idiot politicians claims that Vumacam is basically a Hikvision project (which it's not) it's like using Hankook tyres and then claiming the whole car is Chinese. While the equipment might be from China it runs proprietary software that can recognise any unauthorized data being moved. It's also a closed circuit system, no internet access.
 
In August 2022, security researchers at CYFIRMA identified a critical command injection flaw that affected hundreds of thousands of Hikvision cameras.

While the company rolled out a patch for the vulnerability in September 2021, an analysis found that tens of thousands of units had not been updated, including at least 2,465 used in South Africa.
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According to my calendar, August 2022 is 11 months after September 2021.

CYFIRMA must be some special kind of security company that finds holes in old software.
Old software that has fixes for over 11 months.

If customers don't apply patches how is that the fault of Hikvision?

More US clutching at straws with "China Bad" propaganda inching the world to a war with China.
 
We are going to get punished for our support of the illegal Russian invasion of Ukraine. There is no way that our government support of a crackpot dictator will get overlooked. It is unfortunate that private companies that do not share our corrupt government's view will be victims in all of this...

As a South African it makes me sad. As a descent human being however it is impossible to overlook countries that support baby killing, rape and other war crimes - the South African government must be tapped on the knuckles.
 
Slckrck said:
If Biden let's these hacky congressmen get away with this, it'd be a bad move.... that'll send South Africa squarely into the arms of China, right now we still have a chance, bit it's stupidity like these cheap political crap that strains relations. I mean they just swallowed whatever some "investigators" said and went with it to Congress ....do your research before sending in a bill.
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Agree, it's ridiculously simple to test if these cameras spy on you. A script kiddie with wireshark can do it.

Yet somehow the US government never seems to do it
 
Sapphiron said:
Yet somehow the US government never seems to do it
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"The risk is Hikvision misusing these connections inside of private networks. Hikvision could potentially look at internal video or use that device to access other devices inside a LAN. This automatic tunnel-out connection could be used to setup a reverse shell or quasi-VPN, letting outsiders tunnel in to the network, using the camera as an ad-hoc router. This is a risk of any provider with such access, though magnified for many due to Hikvision's government ownership."
 
If the US wants countries to not use devices like Hikvision cameras then how about you build better quality ones at lower prices which are readily available instead of straight up banning everything?

How are you throwing good old capitalism out the window in a fight against China?!
 
The US wants not only Russia, but also China isolated. In the US's view, the less global penetration China has the better, irrespective of whether the devices are surveillance devices. This will also allow US-friendly companies to better global penetration. Vumacam has long been under attack by ‘privacy’ advocates, and it always comes with a good ‘Chinese’ dose.

As I always say, when you oppose something, please do, provide alternatives.

The term, "Security Risk", is difficult to navigate without knowing the risks imposed, it just hangs on the assumption of plausibility.

Are there commercial devices which spies on their users, yes.
 
BlackStatic said:
If the US wants countries to not use devices like Hikvision cameras then how about you build better quality ones at lower prices which are readily available instead of straight up banning everything?

How are you throwing good old capitalism out the window in a fight against China?!
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You're not going to compete with China using private sector firms when the Chinese state funds a lot of these ventures.
 
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