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.

  • oldfart@lemm.eeEnglish
    32·
    3 months ago

    I’m really surprised that military in such a technologically advanced country just connected random IP cams to the internet

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      It’s a big bureaucracy and procurement often just means going to the private sector and scooping up what’s on sale.

      Non-zero chance the Koreans are running around with explosive pagers in their pockets right now.

    • abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us
      1·
      3 months ago

      From the Yonhap article,

      The company that supplied the cameras is suspected to have falsified the equipment’s country of origin, and the military is considering taking legal action against it.

      And also,

      military and intelligence authorities found out the surveillance cameras supplied by a South Korean company were produced in China during military equipment examinations

      The TLDR is that these cameras were supposed to be sourced domestically but the company behind it committed fraud to make a quick buck.