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Department of Homeland Security is
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Raising new safety concerns about
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internet connected cameras made in China
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a bulletin obtained by ABC news shows
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Homeland Security believes there are
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tens of thousands of chinese-made
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cameras that could gain access to
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critical us infrastructure networks ABC
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News senior investigative correspondent
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Erin kerki has more on that so Erin
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what's the biggest concern
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here I think that those cameras could
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give the Chinese access to critical
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infrastructure networks and then the
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Chinese from there could exploit them or
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could use that access to conduct some
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kind of of Espionage and and that's what
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this bulletin we obtained here at ABC
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news says and and it raises the the
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possibility that without tighter
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restrictions this kind of a Potential
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Threat could exist Because by the nature
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of design cameras that are made by
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Chinese manufacturers communicate with
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them you know back and forth and and
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that could be for simple reasons like
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you know maintenance or whatever uh but
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if if the the Chinese are able to
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exploit them uh and the bulletin warns
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that that ability exists and China's
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tried to do it before uh it raises a
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concerns so what kind of measures can be
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infrastructure so there there are a
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couple of things the bulletin mentions
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first the US has not had success in
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simply blocking the the import of these
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things because of of kind of workarounds
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that the Chinese have had some success
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in in using they called White labeling
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in other words the the True Manufacturer
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is sometimes concealed they'll be
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packaged in different boxes uh shipped
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through a different entity and then they
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end up in the United States and there
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are believed to be tens of thousands of
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them connected to critical us
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infrastructure so trying to crack down
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there would be one thing and then trying
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to have these cameras filter through
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some kind of encryption or other
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security measure the bulletin says that
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could go a long way also
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all right ABC's investigative
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correspondent Aon kki thank you
