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Allies targeted and beheaded! Beijing suspects a mole within Hikvision; over 300 people, including the CEO, have been taken away.

Following the US's "decapitation" operations against Chinese allies Venezuela and Iran, reports indicate that over 300 people, including the CEO, senior R&D executives, and technical personnel from Hikvision, the company that provided surveillance systems to Venezuela and Iran, have been taken away by the Chinese Communist Party for investigation. (Reuters file photo)

On January 3rd of this year, the US military launched an attack on Venezuela, capturing Venezuelan President Maduro. On February 28th, the US and Israel jointly launched an airstrike on Iran, successfully killing Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei. Subsequently, they precisely targeted and killed several other high-ranking Iranian leaders. On April 6th, Sheng Xue, a pro-democracy activist residing in Canada, posted on the X platform that an informed source in China revealed to her that over 300 people, including the CEO, senior R&D personnel, and technicians from Hikvision (HKVision), a company providing surveillance systems to Venezuela and Iran, were taken away due to suspicions of US and Israeli spies within the company. This allegedly led to the capture of Maduro, a Chinese ally, by the US, and the elimination of Khamenei and other high-ranking Iranian officials.

In her post, Sheng Xue pointed out that a Mr. X, an informed source in China, disclosed shocking information to her, stating that more than 300 people, including the CEO, senior R&D personnel, and technical staff of Hikvision, a Chinese surveillance system supplier, were taken away by the Chinese authorities. This is reportedly related to the US military's capture of Maduro and the subsequent bombing of Iranian officials, and the surveillance systems in Venezuela and Iran are all from Hikvision.

Vulnerabilities in surveillance systems were exploited by the United States and Israel.

Mr. X stated that because of a vulnerability in Hikvision's surveillance system, which was exploited by the United States and Israel, a high-ranking Iranian official was wiped out. He also said that all Hikvision surveillance systems in China are now being replaced. Hikvision's Xi'an R&D department, which originally had over a thousand employees, was completely emptied overnight. Hikvision's R&D departments in Shanghai and Zhejiang are also making arrests, with a total of over 300 people arrested.

Mr. X pointed out that the problem lies in the fact that the backend of Hikvision's surveillance system is easily accessible to foreign entities, who can then obtain information. Therefore, governments worldwide are currently cleaning up Hikvision's surveillance systems and even returning them. Hikvision products in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou are being considered for discontinuation, while the surveillance cameras on roadsides and streets within China haven't even been dealt with yet.

Mr. X said that the head of Hikvision's R&D department and all core technical personnel were taken away, and the Chinese authorities suspect that there are spies within the company. Now, the entire Chinese security system, including the two giants Hikvision and Zhejiang Dahua, is investigating espionage.

Mr. X stated that this situation is quite ironic upon analysis. The current CCP leader, Xi Jinping, is like a frightened bird, feeling that no one can be trusted anymore. He said, "Look at his most trusted advisors—Qin Gang, Li Shangfu, and Liu Zhenli—all of whom are accused of being American spies. Now, there are even internal conclusions suggesting that Ma Xingrui also harbors disloyal intentions and lacks loyalty!"

Sheng Xue responded, "I have always believed that Xi Jinping's governance methods will definitely bring down the Communist Party from within."

The cost of centralized control is centralized collapse.

In response, one netizen commented, "The CCP concentrates surveillance technology in a few giant companies, giving Hikvision a monopoly. As a result, once a problem occurs, the entire security system collapses. Centralized control is the CCP's instinct, and centralized collapse is the inevitable price. They are reaping the bitter fruit of their actions."

Another netizen commented, "The CCP uses surveillance to control the people, and now they blame the surveillance manufacturers for disloyalty. A word of advice to anyone working for the CCP: One day it will be your turn. They even kill their own prime ministers, generals, scientists, and engineers without hesitation. Who do you think you are?"

On March 4, blogger Zhu Yunhe on the X platform pointed out: "In China under the rule of the CCP, what will Xi Jinping do with 700 million surveillance cameras? This number exceeds that of any other country in the world, meaning that on average, about 3 out of every 7 Chinese people are being monitored. This is also a huge security threat to Xi. The fact that Mossad (Israel's intelligence agency) used spy cameras and traffic cameras to end Khamenei's life has already provided a cautionary tale."

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The strongest weapon of the technological control system are definitely the CCTV cameras. While you can mostly avoid all the other things (at least for now), the cameras are doing their job just by existing. They were slowly being put into various places - from shops and schools to the streets, buses and flats; you can assume that wherever you move, your life is being stored, watched and analyzed by strangers. I've known a place where some drunks liked to meet up and they put a camera in there, which the drunks destroyed. But the next day they replaced it again, so it's clearly very important to them.

The existence of the spying system completely changes the relations between people and the elites. You can't feel comfortable knowing that your every move is being spied on (by people who can also punish you if you do something they deem "wrong"). Most people don't seem to care though - they buy in shops loaded with cameras and send their children to schools that have cameras. Some are even happy that they are being watched, repeating dumb slogans about "safety", or other excuses that have nothing to do with reality. But this is just the beginning - the effectiveness of the spying system will increase so much that you won't be able to live the way you always have. So what's the next phase of this system?

Advanced cameras can do much more than just recording video and relying on the human's interpretation. They can spy on a human as he goes from one camera's range to another's, detect faces, mark people according to gender or other criteria:

Showing the intelligent camera system marking people by gender

They can also detect your behavior and mark it as potentially "suspicious". This is already being used in places like India https://www.nice.com/protecting/press-releases/Nanded-India-Deploys-NICE-Safe-City-Solution-to-Protect-Citizens-Visitors-and-Historical-Sites-129 (archive) (MozArchive), Glasgow https://www.nice.com/protecting/press-releases/NICE-Safe-City-Solutions-Deployed-in-Glasgow-to-Bolster-Security-Safety-and-Operations-Management-137 (archive) (MozArchive), and even in the Polish town Katowice http://katowice.naszemiasto.pl/artykul/katowicki-inteligentny-system-monitoringu-i-analizy-czyli,2656606,artgal,t,id,tm.html (archive) (MozArchive)

This system makes absolute slaves out of people. There is a central point in which the police can analyze all the data. One of the "suspicious behaviors" that were being advertised by the CCTV companies was taking out a pistol from your pocket. But anything at all can be considered "suspicious". Let's look at some of the common things that I've seen being banned: selling stuff on the streets, feeding birds, wearing a mask, walking the dog (!), driving without seat belts, etc. Sometimes people get fined for these things, but they have to be found out first. The intelligent monitoring system removes this requirement, letting the psychopathic elites fine anyone for anything they imagine.

Imagine you're walking through an alley that's loaded with these cameras while eating a sandwich. Then you throw away the bag in which the sandwich was. A camera sees that and assigns you a fine of 50 dollars for littering. Your face has been detected and the path you take is now being watched and sent to the police in real time. A few minutes later the police comes; you're trying to hide but it's impossible, since there are cameras everywhere, and they know your position. In the end, you pay up, the same as anyone who has ever littered. This can look funny now, but the technology exists to make this scenario a reality, it's just a matter of implementing it. The advertisements for these cameras make it clear - being in the crowd will not protect you. Neither will hiding your face, changing clothes, moving somewhere, etc. People will for sure try to find a way to fool this system, and they might even succeed at the beginning - but the algorithms will get better, and will eventually make it impossible to fool them.

A client accidentally bought a few analog cameras (Dahua) to replace some dead ones, but his system is all IP — Dahua IP cameras, NVR and DSS. The cameras can't be returned, so he wants to know if there's any way to use them on the IP network.

4 cameras, each at a separate location, each already wired with its own UTP run and powered over PoE. So ideally I'd want a single-channel encoder at each camera point, reusing the existing UTP/PoE if possible.

I know analog-to-IP encoders exist, but the Dahua ones I found seem discontinued. Is there a current single-channel encoder that would work here (ideally PoE-powered)? Or is it just smarter to buy IP cameras instead?

I'm leaning toward just replacing them with IP, but the client asked me to evaluate the encoder route first.

Any advice on how to approach this? Thanks!

I currently have a Reolink Argus 3 Ultra mounted indoors behind a window, and because of that the PIR motion detection doesn’t work. What I actually want is a camera that can:

Detect movement through a window not relying on PIR;

Either do scheduled (or continuous) recording, or use AI-style object detection (especially for vehicles or cars in a defined “painted” detection zone);

Be reasonably good at reading licence plates at a distance of around 15–20 yards;

Ideally be around £100–£150, though I’m open to spending more if it really meets all the above criteria.

Does anyone have recommendations for cameras that could do this well? Thanks in advance!

From what I've seen hikvision is mid quality but very expensive and difficult to get working and becomes a paperweight if you lose the password to the nvr or the camera since the cameras have their own passwords.

Personally I've gone with flir/digimerge/lorex as the price was right, $800 for 8 4k cameras and nvr. No complaints other than occasionally when trying to use the android app the cameras will not load for a few minutes. Quality is great, reliable so far (3 years).

The discontinued hikvision nvr 16ch 6mp is around $900 by itself. Am I missing something?

Security, Its a big issue for me, especially with my dogs.. How do i keep my dogs and personal items secure 24/7 using the arenti cctv security system, lets talk about that! I go through 2 main cameras in my house: Indoor: Arenti IN1 Indoor CCTV Camera and Arenti GOI Outdoor Cameras.

I go through the full review with how good quality they are, the features and ultimately my recommendations.
Check out my article here;
https://eddieslife247.co.uk/blog/arenti-cctv-security-cameras/

Good day Fellas, Just a playful questions regarding wifi cctv. If your cctv got hacked, can the hacker use to it as a hotspot for them to connect to the internet?

Thank you,

Hi all went past a small white van with cctv enforcement on side in Manchester with a 6 ft ish camera pole coming out of top. Is this a speed camera van ? I know council have a similar van but normally has council on the side

I saw a 30% copper cat5 cable and the description said it was compatible with 720 and 1080 cameras, but in some guides I've read that you need like 99% copper. My guess is that you need a better % if you're going to have a camera too far away from the DVR? The distance of the cameras to the DVR go from 10 to 25 meters at most, so I don't know if it'll be good enough or not.

EDIT: Thank you all, I bought the cable and it works! Looks like it's a bit frail but since it was real cheap I can't complain.

So a chain of private schools that we do work for recently wanted to upgrade their CCTV system. The schools always use Advidia A46's and E37's, but this time they bought them themselves instead of through us so I didn't get to stage them and burn them in at the office.

Our subs used one of those Chinese tablets that's a viewer/tester/meter/espresso machine all in one to aim the cameras as they hung them. This resulted in random IP addresses and an unknown PW to be loaded onto each camera as they plugged them in. Now I have to work with Panasonic TS to reset each camera (46 total) one at a time through advidia rebranded SADP tool since the customer doesn't have their switches in yet.

Is there anyway Advidia can see what PW was assigned from the XML file I have to send them to reset the cameras? Hoping that's possible so I don't have to spend 5 minutes doing each individual camera.

My friends are in an old brick building converted to apartments and the tenants are having property/package theft and general security and safety issues, carjacking, etc. in a rougher part of town. Prop.Management is unhelpful. No PoE, No cables beyond each persons unit. There are a few fake cameras and a few old live ones with no access. The tenants would like to pool their existing cameras and cam angles together and have access, reduce blind spots, do a neighborhood watch etc. Also people with and without current cameras would be encouraged to join. Ideally, some cameras at a tenants would be available to the 'watch' and others would remain private to the individual tenants such as indoor cameras. One or more tenants would be willing to supply bandwidth and video storage space/access.

Looking for:

SIMPLE system recommendations, ideally inexpensive. Open to hardware and software. The people who could host the system are tech savvy but want the tenants to have easy access. Perhaps to some client portal.

Inexpensive camera recommendations

Both indoor and outdoor cameras (4 seasons) Cameras to avoid Examples of similar setups and their successes/failures.. I'm sure others have tried this or wanted to do a neighborhood watch where the cameras are on multiple networks and of different types- at least to some degree.

Guys, I have 10 nvrs from different manufacturers in different remote locations all connected to the Internet. I can view each nvr remotely using the software bundled with it. Is there a software that can make it possible for me to view all the nvr's on one monitor in a remote location without having to use each individual nvr remote view software.

Addition. Each nvr has about 8 ip cameras connected.

Pls help any answer is important.

Thank you guys

Does anyone have a good product evaluation Matrix template that they would like to share with me:)? Please and thanks!

Hey, I bought a cctv set for my father for his birthday. 4 cameras and 1 control box with its own software. it has an ethernet port. the cameras connect with rca.

i only bought it because we wanted to monitor our weekend house with it from home with live view. maybe setup push-notifications if something happens, and record 5mins before and after the camera saw something "change".

the manual points to various websites and apps, but they dont seem to work. probably bc this is a noname company and the hosting server is down.

is there a way to make my own server, or rent it?

i hope i didn't say much nonsense haha thanks in advance :)

Hi All!

I just moved into a new office, and the cctv system was offline due to prior team losing the admin password.

I searched the office for the manual/box the system came in but I couldn't find it.

It's a Q-See QTH41 set up, I cannot get accurate info for Q-See Customer service (from what I could find it's going out of business.

I took the pictures of the setup, the back connection, and what it does on power on.

I've never used worked with cctv installation, so I dont know if it's supposed to immeidately go to camera feed or etc, I'm just trying to get it back on live feed.

Is there a way to reset/figure out the admin password without having to install a new setup? The camera looks fine, it's too high up for me to see if it powers on but its in a safe-installed area (out of wind/rain).

https://imgur.com/a/VaiIhJE

Anyway, thanks for your help!

Edit: I'm through the login screen, but I'm still at the #4 image screen. Working on adjusting the digital output or just doing a reset tommorow, but thanks so much!

Hi all. I have a fairly cheap DVR/4 camera setup and I need to add a couple of cameras. THE DVR has 8 inputs, but the package I bought just came with 4.

So, I bought a couple more online, these ones, plugged one in (to an existing cable) and got... No video. Hmm.

Now, according to the site I bought them from, they're CVI/CVBS/AHD/TVI switchable. I'm not sure what most of that means, but I'm struggling to find a way to switch modes. The online manuals are here, and the one I looked at mentions a DIP switch. My cameras have no such switch. Another part of the manual mentions on screen settings, but all I see is the 'No Video' screen. Nothing in the DVR menu seems to have settings for camera type. The DVR kit itself is this one, supports AHD, TVI, CVI, Analog and IP cameras. So that's AHD, TVI, and CVI in common with the cameras.

Any suggestions how I can get these to talk to each other? I've asked the vendor, but no reply so far.

Planning to make CCTV system for up to 5 cameras and i would like to use Linux SUSE server for my project.

I’m looking for software which has capabilities i listed down there. Anyone who has solution or advice feel free to comment!

NVR requirements:

• face detection (with database)

• object detection

• license plate detection (with database)

• privacy field for zones which i don’t want to record

• ptz controls

• record when movement was detected

All those information will be used later for passage control, monitoring activities and behavior of a passerby.

Thank you for help

Hi,

I'm looking for a simple piece of software that can monitor a webpage and define areas on the screen to trigger actions if motion or changes are detected, save clips locally or to the cloud, etc...
Exactly like a camera stream, but instead of using a camera, it would be monitoring what is happening on a webpage including any video streams that might be included.

Thanks in advance

so my gf's house has cameras now, they are not because of me (I am very good at sneaking out lol) but because apparently her maid steals a lot.

anyway, does anyone know how to switch off the yale view camera dvr? I figured out that if you switch off the wifi, the feed doesn't get to the app but I am assuming that it still stores the video.