"Before the war broke out, Ukraine had just rolled out "Safe City" across the country: an extensive network of video surveillance. The cameras, often with an internet connection, appear to come largely from Chinese state-owned companies and are easy to hack. Is Russia watching?"

This text was translated from a trustworthy dutch newspaper indepth article NL volksrant article Chinese cameras in Ukraine risk

Unfortunately, I couldn't get the full English translation online.

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[–] HowRu68@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks for your elaborate reaction. I'm certainly not knowledgeable in security matters the way you are. I do agree and can see, that certain systems, soft & hardware platforms can be more vulnerable, regardless their origin.

Also, yes , Duhua wasn't mentioned as a risk. And, although it is possible to set up more secure systems, apperantly it has simply not often or sufficiently been done in the past, either by governments or end consumers. Ofcourse, in the end of the day everything is hackable, if not offsite, then surely onsite.

The issue according to many media has been the unsecure cameras, especially in Ukraine ( but also in many other countries) . So, I'm just hoping that this information leak is being tackled, in a correct way.

But, what you have said, has made it even clearer to me, how vulnerable we all actually are.