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Статья

27 Май 2023

Автор:
Oleksii Kupriienko, Kyiv Post

Opinion: Trojan Horse: How Chinese-made cameras put Ukraine at risk

CalMatters

27 May 2023

Unlike European and American authorities, who have banned the use of surveillance cameras from companies that work with the Chinese military as they present risks to national security, Ukraine has not. The result? Russia and China have access to information that they are collecting, openly, via surveillance cameras across Ukraine.

On the night of May 16, Kyiv experienced one of the most powerful missile attacks of the war. To overload the resource of the capital’s air defense, Russia launched attack drones, hypersonic Kinzhal, cruise missiles from the ships of the Black Sea Fleet and ballistic missiles from land...

Within hours, videos from Kyiv, taken by online surveillance cameras, appeared on Russian Telegram channels.  The clips revealed important information about the capital’s anti-aircraft defense: the order of application, the number and type of air defense missiles used, and the approximate launch areas.

Since Russian satellites are unable to continuously scan strike areas, video cameras with internet access are the enemy’s best means of gathering intelligence and correcting damage...Most online cameras installed in Ukraine are Hikvision and Dahua devices – Chinese state-owned companies...

In February 2022 FBI Director Christopher Wray said that his agency opens a new Chinese-related counterintelligence investigation every 12 hours on average and now has more than 2,000 such cases. 

The special services of the People’s Republic of China operate in a radically different way than Western ones, in terms of nature and scale. The entire population, all Chinese diaspora, and all suitable technical means, including Chinese-made electronic systems, are used to search for information.

“There’s no more ominous prospect in today’s world than the ability of a hostile government to compromise your infrastructure and individual devices,” Wray said.

“If Chinese companies gain unrestricted access to telecommunications infrastructure, they will be able to collect any information that passes through the devices and networks.

“Even worse, they have no choice but to turn it over to the Chinese government if asked. There is simply no privacy protection in China”...

While verbally supporting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, China is a reliable backer of the Russian Federation. In particular, the aggressor is supplied without restrictions with Chinese dual-purpose products that can be used for military purposes...

With the start of a full-scale war in 2022, the revenue of Hikvision’s official representative office in the Russian Federation – Hikvision LLC – increased by 42 percent to 10.9 billion rubles ($135 million). Net profit increased by 1,526% to 1.26 billion rubles ($15.6 million).

The company's staff has been doubled to meet the high demand from Russians for cameras that can be installed in UAVs, as well as ready-made drones, thermal imagers and anti-drone guns...

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