South Korea's military removed 1,300 cameras from its bases after discovering they were Chinese and could connect to a server there, an official said.

South Korea’s military has been forced to remove over 1,300 surveillance cameras from its bases after learning that they could be used to transmit signals to China, South Korean news agency Yonhap reported.

The cameras, which were supplied by a South Korean company, “were found to be designed to be able to transmit recorded footage externally by connecting to a specific Chinese server,” the outlet reported an unnamed military official as saying.

Korean intelligence agencies discovered the cameras’ Chinese origins in July during an examination of military equipment, the outlet said.

  • Pringles@lemm.eeEnglish
    25·
    24 hours ago

    Stuff like this is why I have to tell our Chinese CFO why we don’t want Huawei network devices. Yes Jeff, I know they are cheap as shit, you cheapskate, but you don’t put the cheapest solution in place to run your critical systems on!

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      5 hours ago

      Yes Jeff, I know they are cheap as shit, you cheapskate

      Remind me again why you’d want an Apple (made in China) or OnePlus (made in China) or any of the other 70% of all cell phones available in the US? Are you just a big fan of paying extra for the same technology?

      Or are you more wedded to phones made in Malaysia, India, or Vietnam for some peculiar reason?

      you don’t put the cheapest solution in place

      No shortage of high end Huawei models. They’ve been competitive with Samsung for nearly a decade.