A friend discovered it when he was wanting to monitor his datacenter and considering local security. A situation where someone has access to your DC and could theoretically erase images of them being there since they also have local access to your cameras.
So someone is going to access your camera, power it off, flash a custom firmware to it that they have themselves written that gives them backdoor access to the camera, somehow set it up so that it also has network access that you cannot see on your firewall or network monitoring tools? Then they login to your servers and hope that you don't have any logs enabled that automatically get sent off to a cloud server somewhere. Sounds like your friend has some three letter agency enemies.
One use-case I see (for the Vendor) is avoiding the possibility of users to extend the useful life of their device by loading an aftermarket Firmware like OpenIPCam, OpenMiko, or OpenWrt when the Vendor decides it want's the user to buy a new device instead of continuing to use the existing device for more years.
Of course, Axis will say, that they do this to protect the world from terrorism, CP, and human trafficking.
A friend discovered it when he was wanting to monitor his datacenter and considering local security. A situation where someone has access to your DC and could theoretically erase images of them being there since they also have local access to your cameras.
So someone is going to access your camera, power it off, flash a custom firmware to it that they have themselves written that gives them backdoor access to the camera, somehow set it up so that it also has network access that you cannot see on your firewall or network monitoring tools? Then they login to your servers and hope that you don't have any logs enabled that automatically get sent off to a cloud server somewhere. Sounds like your friend has some three letter agency enemies.
Maybe it's not about your enemies but rather wanting to provide a certain level of security to your clients.
secure boot does not solve such problem.
Don't leave me hanging there, you have to elaborate.
One use-case I see (for the Vendor) is avoiding the possibility of users to extend the useful life of their device by loading an aftermarket Firmware like OpenIPCam, OpenMiko, or OpenWrt when the Vendor decides it want's the user to buy a new device instead of continuing to use the existing device for more years.
Of course, Axis will say, that they do this to protect the world from terrorism, CP, and human trafficking.