slothrop@lemmy.ca to Cybersecurity@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · edit-21 day agoNorway discovers that its Chinese electric buses can be remotely disabledcybernews.comexternal-linkmessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up1275arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up1268arrow-down1external-linkNorway discovers that its Chinese electric buses can be remotely disabledcybernews.comslothrop@lemmy.ca to Cybersecurity@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · edit-21 day agomessage-square43fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·1 day agoWhy put the caveat that it’s not from your country? If it has remote access, it can be remotely disabled. Maybe it’s from a designed feature, or maybe it gets hacked.
minus-squareBakerBagel@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 day agoPeople were reporting on cars being remotely accessed and disabled over 10 years ago. If it has any communication with outside systems, it is susceptible to malevolent actors.
minus-squareboonhet@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoAlso cars have notoriously bad security. I doubt buses are better.
minus-squareHeadfullofSoup@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·1 day agoIt 100% can even if from my country but if done legally i have at least some kind of recourse Nothing i can do if china choose to disable stuff because they don’t like where i live anymore
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down2·1 day agoWhat is the actual likelihood of the following: China remotely disabling it hackers remotely disabling it company grifting you IMO, that list goes from least likely to most likely, and this story is likely just FUD to reward some local manufacturer or other interest.
Why put the caveat that it’s not from your country? If it has remote access, it can be remotely disabled. Maybe it’s from a designed feature, or maybe it gets hacked.
People were reporting on cars being remotely accessed and disabled over 10 years ago. If it has any communication with outside systems, it is susceptible to malevolent actors.
Also cars have notoriously bad security. I doubt buses are better.
Xenophobia.
It 100% can even if from my country but if done legally i have at least some kind of recourse
Nothing i can do if china choose to disable stuff because they don’t like where i live anymore
What is the actual likelihood of the following:
IMO, that list goes from least likely to most likely, and this story is likely just FUD to reward some local manufacturer or other interest.