The first case we have found of video surveillance cameras being exploited systematically in a criminal pornographic commercial enterprise

I think most people aware of Hikvision at this point understand the lack of privacy and security. This seems to take it up to a new level though with their software being used to distribute hacked material obtained by bad actors. Marked as NSFW purely due to the sensitive subject matter of the article.

  • Zima@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    if they are capturing crimes shouldn’t the police follow up to arrest the people in the videos?

    • anon@kbin.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      Title is borked - what was on sale were credentials to remotely view home cameras in which child nudity may occasionally be involved, and still pictures of the same. There is no mention of abuse nor deliberate exploitation of children. It’s still completely fucked up, illegal, and a massive privacy breach, though.

      • Zima@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        Thanks. makes sense.

        the claim was so fucked up that I did not want to look at the article.

  • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Why the fuck are people comfortable putting cloud based cameras in their homes? There is literally no positive tradeoff for that security risk and the loss of privacy.

    • Shef@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Fortunately, IPVM (research group that made the discovery) is cooperating with the FBI. Unfortunately, a lot of this may depend on cooperation from Hikvision and the Chinese government. It seems Hikvision’s initial response is to discredit IPVM rather than comply with an investigation. There has been a longstanding feud between IPVM and Hikvision because of multiple reports about their security vulnerabilities among other things. I’m worried this may lead them to be even more defensive and less helpful than usual.

  • Shef@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    It wouldn’t let me relpy to Zima for some reason.

    Due to the international nature of the crimes it’s going to depend on a lot of countries working together. In this case the company that would need to comply the most is closely affiliated with the Chinese government. So closely affiliated that the government technology holding group actually owns 40% of the company. This makes cooperation unfavorable for China as they will have to admit faults with a product they own. It appears it will be more financially advantageous for them to deny allegations and cover up the problem.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikvision#Ownership

    HIK Group, 中电海康集团有限公司), a wholly owned subsidiary of China Electronics Technology Group, which has a 39.59% stake.[3]: 82  China Electronics Technology Group is a state-run enterprise owned and supervised by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council.