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.

  • Praise IdlenessEnglish
    13•2 months ago

    If you have access to hardware level design, just about anything can happen.

    • @[email protected]English
      5•2 months ago

      I think you misunderstood the previous comment. Not the devices need to be configured correctly, but the network they’re connected to.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•2 months ago

      If the network the cameras connect to has no way to reach the Internet, then the cameras can’t reach the Internet.

      • Praise IdlenessEnglish
        0•2 months ago

        I can think of many ways to transmit data. Doesn’t even nessesarily have to be the Internet. Internal SIM card? Satelite connection? VLAN is definitely not a solution to a state-level hardware threat.

        • @MehBlahEnglish
          2•2 months ago

          That is a really weak argument. It implies that no one inspects the device. The cameras I have are blocked at the router on their own vlan and since I pulled the cover off of them I know they have no other means of connecting to a network. A really weak argument