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.
How the fuck did that happen?
Dear south korean government
please hire me instead. I promise I’m so paranoid, this will never happen.
Capitalism. They just bought the cheapest reliable enough option they could find and didn’t give two craps about infosec, because that’s too expensive to actually properly do. Minimize the financial losses of an upfront purchase. (I worked more than enough jobs in hardware design to know what management cares about and what it doesn’t)
Also, big yikes for the Israel flag in your username.
I think this is more of an OPSEC issue than an Infosec one, but both terms work.
Suppliers lie.
I know a guy who is the sole reason that software written by <adversary> isnt being currently used in <host countries most top secret defense environment>. His boss told him to lie if asked, and he refused to and informed <end user>.
Cheap devices