Dahua's Custom China Army VMS, Deletes Evidence

By Charles Rollet, Published Dec 21, 2022, 07:31am EST (Info+)

Dahua has a customized VMS for the PRC Army (PLA) that Dahua touts being used by military personnel in Hong Kong and Tibet.

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Dahua refused to respond to IPVM's questions about its military VMS, instead deleting the online evidence.

After Dahua was deemed a Chinese Military Company by the US and IPVM investigated its military partnerships, Dahua said it is a "private sector" firm with no current PLA deals.

In this post, IPVM examines the solution and Dahua's pattern of hiding evidence.

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Comments (3)

Undisclosed Integrator #1

12/27/22 03:33pm

What's up with the Lenovo-esq "ThinkDSS" logo in the top right?

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Undisclosed Integrator #2

In reply to Undisclosed Integrator #1 | 12/27/22 03:55pm

To be fair, logo design is hard, so why not just steal somebody else's...

Here is a comparison of the two logos, along with some text attempting to match the font:

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Based on this, I think the "ThinkDSS" logo is using Haettenschweiler. Not quite the same as Lenovo's font, but the red dot above the i is clearly an imitation.

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Charles Rollet

In reply to Undisclosed Integrator #2 | 12/28/22 02:57am

DSS means Dahua Security System (DSS) however I couldn't find other references to "ThinkDSS" online. Maybe it was an internal logo.

Related, PRC video surveillance firms sometimes copy better-known tech company slogans. For example Intel (unsuccessfully) sued Uniview for copying the Intel Inside logo ("IMOS Inside"):

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