[Tomas C] saw an opportunity to mod his Xiaomi Dafang IP camera which comes configured to work only with proprietary apps and cloud. The hack involves voiding the warranty by taking the unit apart ...

"On some laptops, you can even do this so that the light next to your camera will not go on. The light which is supposed to tell you that I am recording might not tell you that it is recording." ...

Chinese-made surveillance cameras ... is it to hack them and what does it mean for our security? In a darkened studio inside the BBC's Broadcasting House in London, a man sits at his laptop ...