The good Chinese brands, if they do have a hard-coded password, usually make you change it on first login. I’m pretty sure newer Hikvision and Dahua models do this (plus their resellers/rebrands like Amcrest, Lorex, Annke, etc).
Of course, there’s all sorts of junk on Amazon that don’t follow any sort of standards.
Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Also cheap cameras also tend to ship with a number of x-day vulnerabilities.
dan@upvote.au 1 week ago
It’s usually fine if you stick to a good well-known brand, but there’s some cheaper cameras that are bootleg clones of other brands, that can’t run the latest upstream firmware so they’re stuck on a hacked/modified version of older firmware.