Canada Orders Chinese Firm Hikvision To Cease Canadian Operations Over National Security Concerns (reuters.com) 22
The Canadian government has ordered Chinese surveillance camera manufacturer Hikvision to cease operations in Canada over national security concerns, Industry Minister Melanie Joly said late on Friday. From a report: Hikvision, also known as Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co, has faced numerous sanctions and restrictions by Canada's neighbor, the United States, over the past five and a half years for the firm's dealings and the use of its equipment in China's Xinjiang region, where rights groups have documented abuses against the Uyghur population and other Muslim communities.
"The government has determined that Hikvision Canada's continued operations in Canada would be injurious to Canada's national security," Joly said on X, adding that the decision was taken after a multi-step review of information provided by Canada's security and intelligence community."
"The government has determined that Hikvision Canada's continued operations in Canada would be injurious to Canada's national security," Joly said on X, adding that the decision was taken after a multi-step review of information provided by Canada's security and intelligence community."
Hikvision (Score:5, Funny)
Xinjiang again (Score:1)
That's been thoroughly debunked. Why do they keep this nonsense up.
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China is doing what many people in the UK and US demand - forced integration.
I'm not saying that to excuse China, I'm saying we need to be extremely vigilant and not let it happen here.
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China is doing what many people in the UK and US demand - forced integration. I'm not saying that to excuse China, I'm saying we need to be extremely vigilant and not let it happen here.
Huh? Forced? What are you referring to?
The "melting pot" was voluntary. People coming here wanting to become Americans, not balkanize into isolated communities forever. The latter is a more recent trend, a silly and false conflation of melting pot with colonialization. In short, we blend, we don't annihilate the old. Especially in one's home or church/temple/mosque/etc.
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Hasn't the Trump administration just made the official language English, and deleted all the Spanish language material from the White House website?
I've seen comments from people on both sides of the pond about speaking English.
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Hasn't the Trump administration just made the official language English, and deleted all the Spanish language material from the White House website?
Learning English is part of the naturalization process, part of the melting pot. And no one is prevented from speaking a different language on the street, in their home, in their religious institution, etc. Going back to the 1930s my great grandfather spoke his native language in his house and had a picture of his old king on wall. On the street, at work, he spoke English (with an accent). When my grandfather served during WW2, my great-grandfather hoped he wouldn't have to shoot any relatives but understoo
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Right... you came to America because of "Freedom!" and all that... that doesn't mean only choose to learn enough English to get what you want and form your own expanding community where you take over an area with your five children and husband in a two bedroom apartment (because three of the kids float between your fellow neighbors so you can beat the system) that used to be decent cheap housing for everyone, your "advocate" fills out all your paperwork to make sure you get everything imaginable down to a n
Melting pot made USA successful ... (Score:2)
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Yes, but when people from someplace (not naming names, not starting a whole thing, no ONE country is guilty of it) come over, and just take over a whole corner, including chasing away a Vietnamese grocery and making it their own grocery, buying a former gas station just to have a tea shop, buying a former successful bar and brewery (making it a restaurant) and setting up a gas station down from the former bar (which was an insurance place)... all just so they have places to hang out... that's not fitting in
Re: Xinjiang again (Score:1)
The technique requires a demon and demonisation and some demonic thing to point at.
Notice itâ(TM)s always structured like this:
1. Sham elections in country C!
2. Mr D is an authoritarian/dictator
3. Look what is happening to the poor people P in region R of country C!
4. We must invade and bring our freedoms to country C!
Anyone has actual info? (Score:2)
What's the actual risk posed by this hardware in a well isolated vlan with no internet access?
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Assuming the answer to you question is "None":
How often to the end-users properly isolate the camera?
I don't think "If used properly, but not in the way most people use it" is a good argument.
Canada should be able to trust what it buys (Score:3)
What's the actual risk posed by this hardware in a well isolated vlan with no internet access?
Canada should not be forced to go to such extremes to protect itself from the equipment it is buying.
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If you are really paranoid there might be ways to remotely enable WiFi or something, but it's unlikely. For domestic use there really is no issue, it's only high security stuff where you might think twice.
They have good optics and cameras, and you can find modified firmwares to enable extra features. Since some countries got paranoid there have been plenty of them cheap on the used market too.
got some ... (Score:1)
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More of the same baseless fear mongering with zero evidence from the US, it's only unfortunate that Canada follows along instead of making its own decisions. The US lost any credibility after Iraq, any kind of policy shift should require more than "trust me bro".
CCP can't be trusted (Score:2)
Doctor who defected to U.S. says Chinese scientists trained to steal U.S. lab research for Beijing
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