Investigation launched after discovery that Chinese supplier had remote access to vehicles’ control systems

Authorities in Denmark are urgently studying how to close an apparent security loophole in hundreds of Chinese-made electric buses that enables them to be remotely deactivated.

The investigation comes after transport authorities in Norway, where the Yutong buses are also in service, found that the Chinese supplier had remote access for software updates and diagnostics to the vehicles’ control systems – which could be exploited to affect buses while in transit

  • randomname@scribe.disroot.orgEnglish
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    3 days ago

    In principle I’d agree, but I have a nitpick: The laws must say that those that built infrastructure must be European countries with their HQ in Europe (not foreign-owned subsidiaries with European HQ).

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netMEnglish
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      3 days ago

      That would be likely incompatible with WTO agreements and usually leads to local quasi monopolists charging absurd prices to government run service providers. And it wouldn’t solve the likely issue of European companies buying the needed software and hardware from abroad anyway.

      • randomname@scribe.disroot.orgEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Do you have anything that fosters your statements?

        That aside, China has been doing exactly that for decades, and this practice has intensified in recent years and even months.

        • poVoq@slrpnk.netMEnglish
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          2 days ago

          Europe isn’t China. It would be pointless to turn Europe into a quasi-China to prevent Chinese influence on Europe. Just like it is pointless to create European tech giants as a counter to US American ones.

            • poVoq@slrpnk.netMEnglish
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              2 days ago

              China has a bunch of government aligned quasi-monopolists that try to expand into the European market. What you are suggesting is basically the same model, just with European ones, which is at most marginally better and will likely be much worse (I am old enough to remember when this was still a common model in western Europe, and it sucked big time).

              • randomname@scribe.disroot.orgEnglish
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                2 days ago

                Yeah, when we are older we have seen more in Europe and China (and hasn’t Confucius portrayed an old age as the summit of a long life?). Who knows what happens. It’s hard to tell the future if the US is doing things.