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Norway discovers that its Chinese electric buses can be remotely disabled (cybernews.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by slothrop@lemmy.ca to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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different source (Danish)

It's no surprise, as kill switches are pretty much ubiquitous.

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[–] HeadfullofSoup@kbin.earth 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well yeah? I just assume that anything with remote access not directly from my country can be disabled and render useless at anytimes even more when it’s come from a dictatorial empire

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

Also cars have notoriously bad security. I doubt buses are better.

[–] fort_burp@feddit.nl 6 points 2 months ago

Xenophobia.

[–] HeadfullofSoup@kbin.earth 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago

What 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.