Spent some time going through Hik source code/looking for monte crypto backdoor. Nothing yet, but eliminated some things. Didn't want to spend all day on it, but will keep going through it in between other things.
Call wtih Brian from Resolver and then wrote post on their $20m funding raise.
Spoke with Janet - she gave me contacts for Dahua India guys, also said that distributor ownership involvement may include Hanwha, she is going to talk to someone there and get back to me. Also asked her about the cyber security stuff, she did check into that too, mostly vague state,sets from China side about doing more related to cyber security, but nothing concrete from it yet.
Chat with some other folks in India about the Hik/Dahua distributors. They confirmed ownership, knew of it first hand.
Emailed both the Indian distributors to see if we could get more info/etc from them. Nothing yet, but they were probably sleeping at the time.