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.

  • @[email protected]English
    4•1 day 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•15 hours 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•6 hours 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 on 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