Today, there was a Business Insider article about the latest in the China Communist Party's dystopian tactics: China has started ranking citizens with a creepy 'social credit' system — here's what you can do wrong, and the embarrassing, demeaning ways they can punish you
A redditor commented on that topic linking to IPVM's Hikvision OEM directory on a highly read thread there, sending 6,000+ visitors to IPVM today. The problem is he made a few factual mistakes:
The Chinese government owns over half of Shenzhen Brosensing Technology Company LTD.
In the United States, Shenzhen Brosensing Technology Company LTD is known as a company called Hikvision. One of the largest camera distributors in the United States.
Obviously, Hikvision is the "Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co. Ltd.", not Shenzhen Brosensing and the Chinese government is the controlling shareholder with 42% and they are not a US distributor.
Also, he says:
Any Hikvision manufactured camera connected to a network can be deactivated, activated, reset, or even locked out by Hikvision
I am not sure what he means here but the Hikvision security codes are the closest thing to that.
If anyone knows how to contact Redditors or that specific Redditor, please do.
