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Haitchyy t1_ixs2cj5 wrote

Reply to comment by Syncopationforever in UK bans Chinese cameras from government buildings by Alvin_Chen

because our government is unfit for purpose

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art-love-social t1_ixs8sqx wrote

This is not political decision it is government aka civil service decisin. there are LOADS of companies doing this. I have just finished a project ... The replacement cameras/systems are also made in china - however they have had their code checked and verified. It is simpler, easier, quicker and cheaper just to tear out the old and bung in the new "checked" cameras.

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androshalforc1 t1_ixtk32k wrote

> however they have had their code checked and verified.

and what about the hardware? a small wireless transmitter on a board capable of accessing/downloading a harddrive if someone with the right receiver is in range

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art-love-social t1_ixtrw6c wrote

..anything in IT requires "code" . The checking is a literal line by line. V Sensitive stuff can [and often is] encased in a Faraday cage

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feral_brick t1_ixtvlaq wrote

I can see your security engineers are working overtime covering for you.

There's tons of purpose built IC's without any code to review

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art-love-social t1_ixtxhef wrote

Indeed there are, however wifi/transmitters and data acquisition would not fall into that category. Security is is excellence in box ticking, if the manufacture can't explain the purpose of a chip = device not approved .. and NEXT!

While Huawei were fighting their losing battle to show their kit was safe and OK, there is/was a facility in Leeds [UK] that went through their kit to validate claims. *Huawei kit is now being removed from the UK 5G network roll out. Large UK company I was doing work for got taken over by a US company in a worldwide shopping spree, and from this perspective - any huawei kit to be removed from network in a quick time scale, no huawei phones for business purposes ... and so on

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feral_brick t1_ixv4mtc wrote

You can absolutely create a malicious microcontroller that does some malicious days transfer on the side, you have no idea what you're talking about

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art-love-social t1_ixvkr8v wrote

Yup, exactly. which is why entities* exist that check the kit from the ground up. Any malicious code, unexplainable hardware, reluctance of manufactures to explain = device fails ...

eg the Huawei set up in Leeds UK

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blaze53 t1_ixu4t40 wrote

No it isn't.

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art-love-social t1_ixu7d58 wrote

..would love to hear of an example of hardware that carries out a useful function without any form of coding/instruction set ?

Further in the context of this a piece of hardware that carries out data acquisition and onward transmission without any code

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blaze53 t1_ixu850j wrote

I'm talking about the Faraday cage nonsense.

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art-love-social t1_ixuu35q wrote

F cages are used in secure environments - but granted for a CCTV camera it is a bit of a stretch

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blaze53 t1_ixuxijf wrote

In secure environments, the sensitive shit is on a wired network, separate from wireless access points. Which movie did you watch?

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therapeuticstir t1_ixsa678 wrote

How’s that new guy doing? Better than the last before him I hope.

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