[meow_catrix]

Maybe don’t buy surveillance hardware from those brands

[sinuhe69]

Not OP, but the reason may be:

US - FCC Ban The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) banned Dahua and Hikvision from new equipment authorizations in November 2022. Most products that use electricity require FCC equipment authorizations; otherwise, they are illegal to import, sell, market, or use, even for private individuals. Jul 5, 2024

[hcfman]

Shame, they are the best cameras available.

[moandcompany]

A lot of the commercial-style or commercial-grade IP Cameras sold are rebadged Dahua or Hikvision products.

Compromised firmware or other backdoors are a concern for a wide range of products. With IP Cameras, a commonly recommended practice includes putting them on a non-internet accessible network, disabling any remote access, UPnP type features, etc. You can run IP cameras in an air-gapped configuration as well.

Home/consumer-grade cameras have plenty of shortcomings too.

[hcfman]

If they are rebadged, that's fine :)

[avh02]

You're going to have to explain the reasoning here

[meow_catrix]

”Analysts noticed that CCTV cameras in Taiwan and South Korea were digitally talking to crucial parts of the Indian power grid – for no apparent reason. On closer investigation, the strange conversation was the deliberately indirect route by which Chinese spies were interacting with malware they had previously buried deep inside the Indian power grid.”

[nativeit]

Could you elaborate? What’s up with those brands?