Soldiers’ gate codes were captured by dashcams they forgot to switch off

Soldiers typing access codes within view of a recording lens is a serious breach of routine security, whatever the nationality of the car's owner.

Gate codes protect restricted areas, so anyone who accessed the clips could have learned how to enter them without authorization.

Soldiers found the clips by chance while browsing the vehicle menus because they were bored, and they erased the recordings afterward.

Norway’s Police Security Service, the counterintelligence body, says Chinese intelligence and security agencies now possess greater capacity to run operations inside the country.

Yet all these cases involve other incidents and policies, and none connects Geely or the rental firm to the dash cams that recorded the soldiers.