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.

  • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Yeah all of my servers are on usff PC’s, so I get it.

    If you do a hypervisor like proxmox, then throw your NVR in a VM, you can just create a couple of virtual NICs (though you’ll be back at that FW issue I’m sure).

    USB NICs are pretty well supported these days though, and cheap to boot. Just need to be certain you’ve got usb3 if you want to make use of that gig though!

    I’ve got a few pi-a-likes that I’m doing similar camera fun with, though using some webcams in there and a 3d printed case. At least that way they match my diy temp sensors with esp32s!