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    Best Buy, Home Depot and Lowes Drop Dahua Lorex Oct 25, 2021 - IPVM and TechCrunch reports

    I never touted "free information", below is exactly what I said: All of the companies are clearly displayed in the public image, which I have copied below for your convenience so you can see who those companies are:
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    Best Buy, Home Depot and Lowes Drop Dahua Lorex Oct 25, 2021 - IPVM and TechCrunch reports

    You've staked out a quite extreme position that even if we report negatively on PRC companies it "supports the PRC", like when we reported on Dahua's most recent critical vulnerabilities Dahua New Critical Vulnerabilities 2021 I leave it to each person to judge on whether that makes sense to...
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    Best Buy, Home Depot and Lowes Drop Dahua Lorex Oct 25, 2021 - IPVM and TechCrunch reports

    When we publish negative test reports about Dahua and Hikvision, in your thought process, do we directly support the PRC? For example, Dahua Seatbelt And Phone Analytics Tested I don't think you can reasonably argue that criticizing PRC-made products supports the PRC? So what you are getting at...
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    Best Buy, Home Depot and Lowes Drop Dahua Lorex Oct 25, 2021 - IPVM and TechCrunch reports

    Yes, thank you for proving my point! Let me ask you this. If your hypothesis is correct, how do you explain IPVM not accepting advertisements, sponsorships (like IPCamTalk does)? How do you explain IPVM not selling products (like IPCamTalk does)? If I am truly this secretly greedy person, why...
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    Best Buy, Home Depot and Lowes Drop Dahua Lorex Oct 25, 2021 - IPVM and TechCrunch reports

    Yes, I know. That's why I cited a new Xinhua report from months ago to only have a guy tell me I get my news from CNN. The reason why I brought it up is that you declared: This is false and you now have admitted this is false. I do not need to ask anyone, I am well aware of "小皇帝", etc...
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    Best Buy, Home Depot and Lowes Drop Dahua Lorex Oct 25, 2021 - IPVM and TechCrunch reports

    We test camera models from all over the world. For our own internal use, we adopted a not made in PRC China policy.
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    Best Buy, Home Depot and Lowes Drop Dahua Lorex Oct 25, 2021 - IPVM and TechCrunch reports

    I cited Xinhua (Xinhua Headlines: China unveils details of three-child policy, support measures - Xinhua | English.news.cn), do you want Xinhua is? It's the official news agency of the PRC China government. And your attempt to refute it is "according to my chinese friends". Read the Xinhua...
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    Best Buy, Home Depot and Lowes Drop Dahua Lorex Oct 25, 2021 - IPVM and TechCrunch reports

    Happy to do so. Is there a consensus of what models IPCamTalk members want to see tested? Fenderman, your thundering style of shouting down those you disagree with does not affect me and does not strengthen your argument. We take our role in researching and exposing unethical activity...
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    Best Buy, Home Depot and Lowes Drop Dahua Lorex Oct 25, 2021 - IPVM and TechCrunch reports

    We do not 'encourage" people to buy. Unlike IPCamTalk, IPVM does not sell cameras. We do not use affiliate links to profit off the sale of cameras. We don't accept advertising or sponsorship from manufacturers, etc. We fairly test products to accurately understand how they perform so that...
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    Best Buy, Home Depot and Lowes Drop Dahua Lorex Oct 25, 2021 - IPVM and TechCrunch reports

    First you said "I am certain you buy many products that support the PRC," then I informed you of our policy and my personal decision so then you moved the goalpost to what we did for years before, and then you speculate about components of products. As for "trashing", IPVM criticizes lots of...
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    Best Buy, Home Depot and Lowes Drop Dahua Lorex Oct 25, 2021 - IPVM and TechCrunch reports

    @fenderman if you don't have any bias simply make clear that you do not financially benefit in any way from the sales of Dahua and Hikvison on IPCamTalk. If you say so, I will believe you. No, that's wrong. We implemented a policy recently not to buy PRC products and I took the lead personally...
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    Best Buy, Home Depot and Lowes Drop Dahua Lorex Oct 25, 2021 - IPVM and TechCrunch reports

    @fenderman IPCamTalk literally runs a store selling Dahua and Hikvision products, so accusing IPVM of bias is akin to a man in a glass house throwing stones, that fair? I think the PRC is a danger to the security of the United States and other liberal democracies and supporting companies like...
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    Best Buy, Home Depot and Lowes Drop Dahua Lorex Oct 25, 2021 - IPVM and TechCrunch reports

    No, our team does hundreds of hours of original research that no one else does in video surveillance. We generously provide IPCamTalk members unlocked free access to many tests but I am not obligated to give you a copy of the report.
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    Best Buy, Home Depot and Lowes Drop Dahua Lorex Oct 25, 2021 - IPVM and TechCrunch reports

    I totally believe you that there are thousand of IPCamTalk users who do this. I also know that there are a lot of people, even installers (trunkslammers) who will gladly bunch holes in firewalls to do it quick and easy. I don't think there is any feasible way to stop those people from using...
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    Best Buy, Home Depot and Lowes Drop Dahua Lorex Oct 25, 2021 - IPVM and TechCrunch reports

    Lol, that's funny. "Liberal Democracies" means countries like the US, UK, etc. as Wikipedia defines it: It does not mean liberals (e.g. AOC) vs conservatives (e.g. Ted Cruz).
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    Best Buy, Home Depot and Lowes Drop Dahua Lorex Oct 25, 2021 - IPVM and TechCrunch reports

    What you say makes good sense for optimal security. When I say it is not a "practical general option" I mean it's not practical to ask people and businesses in general to airgap their surveillance devices. This is not my opinion of what should or should not be done. It's the reality of what...
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    Best Buy, Home Depot and Lowes Drop Dahua Lorex Oct 25, 2021 - IPVM and TechCrunch reports

    @wittaj Thanks, those are important questions! We run a clean, independent business. We've never taken any ads, sponsorships, or anything like that. We buy virtually every camera we test and we never accept free gear. Like other publications, various people and companies subscribe to us...
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    Best Buy, Home Depot and Lowes Drop Dahua Lorex Oct 25, 2021 - IPVM and TechCrunch reports

    @TVille for those of you who want lowest price, it's likely you will continue to buy from the PRC, whether through Uniview or other PRC factories or their relabellers (TVT, Sunell, RaySharp, etc.). And if or when such action is finalized, there are various other competitors that would expand...
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    Best Buy, Home Depot and Lowes Drop Dahua Lorex Oct 25, 2021 - IPVM and TechCrunch reports

    No one is asking you to subscribe to IPVM and I regularly make subscriber-only test reports available to IPCamTalk members.
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    Best Buy, Home Depot and Lowes Drop Dahua Lorex Oct 25, 2021 - IPVM and TechCrunch reports

    I don't think matching the price is possible. However, quality certainly is plus greater security and less dependence on the PRC are valuable to the US and other liberal democracies. We did a study and found 40+ manufacturer alternatives - 40+ Alternatives to Dahua & Hikvision For Video...
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    Best Buy, Home Depot and Lowes Drop Dahua Lorex Oct 25, 2021 - IPVM and TechCrunch reports

    Related, an FCC Commissioner has called to add DJI to the covered list, see: Carr Calls for Review of DJI, Citing National Security Risks
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    Best Buy, Home Depot and Lowes Drop Dahua Lorex Oct 25, 2021 - IPVM and TechCrunch reports

    @wittaj Keeping surveillance systems isolated from the Internet is not a practical general option. Any individual may do so but forcing or requiring them to do so undermines the fundamental value proposition of IP video surveillance. I do fundamentally disagree about "this issue that will be...
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    Best Buy, Home Depot and Lowes Drop Dahua Lorex Oct 25, 2021 - IPVM and TechCrunch reports

    If I (we/IPVM) can answer any questions on this, let me know.
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    Is ColorVu any decent or more of a gimmick?

    ColorVu has integrated white light LEDs, so I don't think it's fair to say its simply a name for conventional low light cameras. It's more of a flashlight built into a camera. Especially for areas with no light or very low light, it can improve image quality (as can adding light generally) Here...
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    Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in Hikvision IP camera/NVR firmware (CVE-2021-36260)

    Yes. Hilook cameras generally start with IPC- prefix, e.g., see screencap attached from Value Cameras The Hikvision disclosure says "IPC-xxxx" are impacted. I don't know all the model numbering of Hilook but minimally those IPC- ones are listed as impacted. Related, Hiwatch, another Hikvision...
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    Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in Hikvision IP camera/NVR firmware (CVE-2021-36260)

    We (IPVM) have published a report on the vulnerability and Watchful_IP's report - Hikvision Has "Highest Level of Critical Vulnerability", Impacting 100+ Million Devices
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    Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in Hikvision IP camera/NVR firmware (CVE-2021-36260)

    Very thorough report! PRC law mandates PRC companies disclose such vulnerabilities to the government, excerpt: "The relevant vulnerability information should be reported to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's cyber security threat and vulnerability information sharing platform...
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    camera that doesn't use 264.H

    Virtually all IP cameras have an option for MJPEG, which should work in even old browsers. The tradeoff is significant higher bandwidth consumption as it is effectively just a stream of JPEG images.
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    UK CCTV watchdog criticises Hikvision Uyghur response

    HIkvision knows what it is involved with and they know they won and operate those directly. Our (IPVM) video summation of this:
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    What frame rate are you all using?

    Our (IPVM) Frame Rate Guide for Video Surveillance may help. It has stats and demonstrations. On the stats side:
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