Security cameras guarding Magna Carta are provided by a Chinese CCTV company whose technology has allegedly aided the persecution of Uyghurs and been exploited by Russia during the invasion of Ukraine, it has emerged.
In letters seen by the Guardian, campaigners called on Salisbury Cathedral, which houses one of four surviving copies of the “powerful symbol of social justice”, to rip out cameras made by Dahua Technology, based in the Chinese city of Hangzhou.
They have also written to the authorities responsible for the Parthenon temple in Greece, which is monitored by cameras produced by another Chinese company, Hikvision.
Cameras made by the firms have already been removed from sensitive UK government sites, over concerns that they could be remotely accessed by China and used to spy on sensitive sites.
Literally any wifi enabled doorbell camera that keeps working when you block it from accessing the internet. Then just VPN into your home network if you need to access it remotely.
Ring environment is more than that and its a shit ton more convenient that they have battery operated outdoor cameras that are wifi enabled, door sensors, mention detectors, etc with batteries that’ll last a month on a single charge with easily swapable batteries. Literally the superior product but now I have to deal with Flock.
In that case, make sure you enable E2EE.
They definitely try to dissuade you from doing this with all of the “are you sure? You’ll lose access to all these features” warnings.