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  • Ah, and they never review iPhones/Android phones after Israeli companies demonstrated they can backdoor any cellphone on this planet, and especially after they demonstrated they can explode consumer devices and maim 3000+ people overnight.

    They don’t review Windows machines either after the Snowden revelations.

    How many wars did the Chinese start in the past century?

    by submeta
  • If your transport is accessible remotely, it can be hacked remotely. This reminds me of that story about Polish Trains. In that case GPS was used to execute a kill code. https://social.hackerspace.pl/@q3k/111528162462505087
    by josefritzishere
  • Surprisingly Norway choose this brand, never had a good ride in one, feels like sitting in a water boiler.
    by linhns
  • Related out of Denmark:

    Danish authorities in rush to close security loophole in Chinese electric buses

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/05/danish-authori...

    by ChrisArchitect
  • Whatever happened with the Polish trains that had all the backdoors that were discovered?
    by dlgeek
  • Whats sad is Norway sits right next to the country which manufactures Scania and Volvo Busses, but instead buys busses from thousands of km away. I suppose cost is all that maters these days, even for national infrastructure which must remain in control and secure.
    by MisterTea
  • So... did the Chinese company put Romanian SIMs in the busses? Or was it an importer that installed those? Are there fleet management features enabled by that connectivity or are they actually secret?

    Also, why would they purchase busses that they thought couldn't be remotely monitored or controlled?! That seems like a very valuable feature for public transport.

    by t-3
  • I work in rail safety. Two major non-Chinese train companies attempted to merge a few years ago, explicitly to build a company that could compete with China's national company, and provide safer alternatives to state-sponsored cyberhacking of Western rail.

    It fell down to an anti-monopoly decision by a single person in the EU ministry, who killed the proposal. Several attempts were made to streamline the merger, but she wouldn't budge.

    As a result, CRCC continues to win contracts abroad, largely (it is believed) by undercutting competition. IP theft is known to be one objective of their at-loss or low-profit contracts (I've been involved in fighting that, specifically).

    It's hardly a stretch to imagine that having control of the rail in countries that might oppose you militarily is strategically huge.

    This article is about busways, but the parallels are obvious.

    by IAmBroom

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