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Beijing Threatens Legal Action Over Webcam Claims

posted by cmn32480 on Thursday October 27 2016, @04:29PM   Printer-friendly
from the in-Soviet-Russia-products-threaten-you dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

The Chinese Ministry of Justice has threatened legal action against "organisations and individuals" making "false claims" about the security of Chinese-made devices.

It follows a product recall from the Chinese electronics firm Hangzhou after its web cameras were used in a massive web attack last week.

The attack knocked out sites such as Reddit, Twitter, Paypal and Spotify.

The Chinese government blamed customers for not changing their passwords.

Its legal warning was added to an online statement from the company Xiongmai, in which the firm said that it would recall products, mainly webcams, following the attack but denied that its devices made up the majority of the botnet used to launch it.

You will like Chinese products, or else.

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  • (Score: 2) by ikanreed on Thursday October 27 2016, @04:33PM

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Thursday October 27 2016, @04:33PM (#419464) Journal

    American-made shitty webcams also have garbage security.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by FatPhil on Thursday October 27 2016, @06:17PM

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Thursday October 27 2016, @06:17PM (#419513) Homepage
    American-made shitty webcams are chinese shitty webcams where the camera and its stand have been clipped together, sorry, I mean "assembled" in the US.
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    • (Score: 2) by ikanreed on Thursday October 27 2016, @06:22PM

      by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Thursday October 27 2016, @06:22PM (#419517) Journal

      Hey, that's not fair, sometimes they're Bangladeshi webcams clipped together in the US. And sometimes they're Vietnamese!

      • (Score: 4, Informative) by bob_super on Thursday October 27 2016, @06:51PM

        by bob_super (1357) on Thursday October 27 2016, @06:51PM (#419525)

        I used to support the designers at Arecont Vision, in Glendale CA. All their cameras are still manufactured and assembled in the building (for how long?).
        Good people as engineers don't mean no security holes, but if you want to buy "made in USA", they might be your last option. Not dirt cheap, but some really cool multi-sensor HD/4K tech.

  • (Score: 2) by driverless on Friday October 28 2016, @10:06AM

    by driverless (4770) on Friday October 28 2016, @10:06AM (#419782)

    In any case the headline is wrong, the Ministry of Justice had nothing to do with it, it was a bad translation from the Chinese original [krebsonsecurity.com].