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

    • 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.