#Wansview app on iphone upgrade#

I did some Googling for the terms ' ip cameras chinese back doors' and there was no shortage of bad news. Block those HTTPS connections back to China, the app cannot connect to the cameras on my local subnet. I tested from every angle and could not defeat this dependency on my phone opening an encrypted connection to China without allowing the subnet to talk to the wider world. There was simply no way to allow communication between the ' WansView' app on my iPhone used to control the IP cameras without establishing that HTTPS backdoor to China first. The ONLY app that could now be invoking the connection was the Chinese 'WansView' camera viewer/management app. Once again, I saw my phone trying to connect to a bunch of public IPs all from a range beginning with ' 117.50'. Nothing else talks on the interface ' WLAN12' other than the cameras and my phone running their app. 3) Start the iPhone app ' WansView' while watching the app start and and see what it and the cameras attempt connections to. Testing Methodology: 1) Close all apps on iPhone. That design cannot be achieved if you break the encrypted backchannel to China from the iPhone running the App. Otherwise, being security cameras they were to be ring-fenced from the 'net. To view them outside the local network, I an IPsec VPN connection would be required. My security design was that these cameras can only talk and be reached on a local (non-Internet routable) RFC-1918 address. Alarmed, I decided to do a proper test to exclude anything else opening that connection other than the Chinese camera app. Watching the traffic on the interface I saw that my phone was trying to open an HTTPS connection to a Chinese IP address. If you block it, it breaks connectivity between the cameras and the management app on the iPhone. Well, I found the reason why the app couldn't connect to the IP cameras: the camera app has a dependency on an HTTPS backdoor to China. So I took a closer look at the traffic on the IP Camera subnet. I thought: That's odd: my phone is on the same subnet as the cameras and I poked the necessary holes for everything to talk on. Oddly though, the app on my iPhone could not connect to them. Nothing but those cameras and my iphone running the management/viewer app are connected to that subnet. If you have Chinese IP cameras in your home or workplace, I suggest you read about my experience with them.Р”В«eing anal about IT security, after buying (4) Chinese IP cameras- which have not only video but two-way voice- I setup a separate wireless subnet for these thingies to live in to isolate them from the rest of my network.

Over 1600+ devices supported, some brands include: 3SVision 3xLogic 7Links A-Link A.V.UPDATE: Almost a year to the day of writing this article, the world's largest IP camera company is now banned BY-LAW in America and I've coded an opensource solution called ' open-ipcamera' which provides enterprise-class motion detection cameras with 100% certainty no third-parties have a backdoor into your cameras: Record Mode turns any spare iOS device into a tiny solid state, battery backed, network video recorder to record your cameras 24x7 with search, playback, and export capabilities.

#Wansview app on iphone upgrade#

Upgrade features include 2-way audio support for Foscam / clone, Axis, Panasonic, Trendnet and many more cameras. Once upgraded, the app works exactly like IP Cam Viewer Pro. Written by Robert Chou Supports: - RTSP, ONVIF, H.265, H.264, MPEG4 - Pinch to zoom (digital zoom) - optical pan tilt zoom and preset recall - SSL and custom functions per camera model - 1 way and 2 way audio for many cameras (upgrade) - grouping of cameras - auto sequence mode (auto rotates cameras and groups) - Record Mode for 24x7 recording (upgrade) - import/export and email sharing of cameras - in-app motion detection - motion email notification (upgrade) Supports in-app upgrade. Remotely view, control and record your IP camera, webcam, DVR and NVR using your iOS device.