Army Rips Out Chinese-Made Surveillance Cameras Overlooking U.S. Base

Wall Street Journal ^ | Jan. 12, 2018 5:30 a.m. ET | By Dan Strumpf

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Congressional committee also plans to hold a hearing about security-camera risks to small businesses

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The U.S. Army said it removed surveillance cameras made by a Chinese state-backed manufacturer from a domestic military base, while a congressional committee plans to hold a hearing this month into whether small businesses face cybersecurity risks from using the equipment.

Fort Leonard Wood, an Army base in Missouri’s Ozarks, replaced five cameras on the base branded and made by Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co. , said Col. Christopher Beck, the base’s chief of staff. He said officials at the base acted after reading media reports about the company.

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[RideForever]

“There is NOTHING we need from Red China that we cannot produce ourselves.”
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Actually, there is. Rare earth minerals are not found in abundance in the U.S. No rare earth, no super-magnets, leds, oled TVs.

[Mastador1]

Remember the days when only American made was allowed in government facilities?

[WayneS]

I did not say we ARE manufacturing the equipment here, I said I think we SHOULD be making it here.

[Trump.Deplorable]

My only question is

Why are military IP cameras connected to the internet?

Remove that, and Russia, China, kid next door, doesn’t have access.....

[Former Proud Canadian]

Rare earth minerals are found in abundance in the US and Canada. We just lack the political will to extract them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Pass_rare_earth_mine

http://www.mining.com/canada-identifies-top-rare-earth-projects-48319/

[Doulos1]

https://www.military.com/defensetech/2012/05/30/smoking-gun-proof-that-military-chips-from-china-are-infected

This is a good read.

[Trump.Deplorable]

I call bogus on that for a couple reasons

First most hardware is really older HP/IBM/Compaq/DEC stuff, it isn’t even connected to the Internet

Second, any military contractor or builder of new systems better be buying genuine CPUs and related components, and not knock offs off of Alibaba, Amazon or where ever. If the US Government is buying s 100 Million dollar weapons system, Raytheon, Lockheed or whomever better not be having some guy in procurement surfing Alibaba buying these gray market or counterfeit parts trying to shave 10 bucks off the proect.