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.

  • HappyTimeHarry@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    If they found out it goes to a specific server, why not just block the server and maybe isolate the network from the internet? I guess its easier to replace them but what’s to say the replacements can’t have the same flaw if other precautions aren’t in place, like how do you even get to installing cameras on military bases without thoroughly vetting the firmware on them fist?

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      3 months ago

      This is just bad spy craft. You don’t tell the person who bugged you that you found their bug. You mess with their head by setting up false flags.

      Like have maps of China and what look like troop movements.

      Or details about tank man.

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      3 months ago

      Just use a system that connects to a server on base and nothing else

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      3 months ago

      I wonder if this was the case. From the bloomberg article,

      “No data has actually been leaked,” they added.

      And from Yonhap,

      found to be designed to be able to transmit recorded footage externally

      So maybe they were designed that way, but it didn’t work because the cam network was offline?

      Keep in mind that this was on the border with North Korea, so, they’d (the South Korean military) have a very high level of paranoia on being hacked to begin with.