Your response typifies the "anti-Hik" lobby in personalising an individual attack - sanctioned by IPVM.

I'm not "anti-Hik", per se, I just happen to believe their products are so severely flawed in terms of cyber security that they are not suitable for use in most commercial deployments. Further, I think that Hik has gone to great lengths to convince people, through blatantly deceptive and fraudulent presentations, that their products are not more or less secure than those of other companies. This is evidenced when I see claims like your following statement:

More recently, Axis and genetic vulnerabilities are airbrushed to see them in some kind of positive light whereby anything at all by HIK/Dahua is trashed into anti-China rhetoric.

My opinion is that you lack the ability to properly evaluate common vulnerabilities and their potential to be exploited and impact a user or their network. My comments are not "personal", but they are in response to your specific statements. If you want to call that some kind of "individual attack", I guess you can, but I would also say you have pretty thin skin.

Not everyone reading the article is from the IPVM community and will indeed believe what they have published in the context of the story.

I would say the average reasonable person reading this would have seen enough Trump photoshops of him holding up altered signs and declarations to recognize the parody/satire element. If not, well, IPVM is catering to an audience that is overall informed and moderately skeptical, they can't dumb and disclaimer every image down to the lowest common denominator. If you read the text under the image, I feel that you get sufficient detail to evaluate the image properly. If you only "read" pictures, well, that is an entirely different issue.

The graphic being misleading is indicative of Johns mission to exaggerate all things Hik

What is truly misleading about the image? Did Trump not in fact sign a bill that bans use of Hytera, Hikvision, and Dahua in government applications?

The facts are that outside of the US the NDAA is meaningless, trivial and entirely irrelevant.

Disagree. Outside of China (where Hik enjoys government preferences and similar bans severely limiting use of foreign surveillance products) North America is the largest market in the security industry. Many manufacturers fund their overseas expansions off of their NA business. Banning Hik and Dahua in the US will make those companies weaker here, and simultaneously strengthen others. That can easily have rolling global impact.

Simply jumping on Johns bandwagon to get "likes" and earn click dollars

I give two shits about who "likes" me, and you can upvote all my comments to infinity and it won't alter my net worth by more than a rounding error. My motivation is not at all related to either of those goals, I am simply trying to share insight and information.

What is harder to do is to enter into reasoned debate

Just so I can keep track, are you the pot or the kettle in the above statement?

But hey - if school yard insults is your thing - then so be it.

At least you are consistent, taking a throw-away image or a throw-away statement and somehow coming away with the understanding that is the whole story.