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I do worry if they are adding this to buses what are they doing to MacBooks and your phone? Do people here think these devices are compromised or should we take Apple’s word for it!?
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.
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…
The European champion would still be ten times smaller than the Chinese but would have factual monopoly in Europe. I don’t think blocking the merger was entirely unreasonable.
If you have two large, slow, bureaucratic and uncompetitive companies, then merging them together won't make the resulting giant less so, but the contrary, it'll be even more inefficient and uncompetitive, and then expect government bailouts because now they're too big to fail.
They don’t review Windows machines either after the Snowden revelations.
How many wars did the Chinese start in the past century?
This is just stupid. All modern vehicles har been fully remote controllable for years.
I fully agree. If these were buses from any other country, this would not be an issue. Every road vehicle sold today has a sim card, most for diagnostics, some for remote control.
Surprisingly Norway choose this brand, never had a good ride in one, feels like sitting in a water boiler.
Maybe not so surprising as Norway summer temp averages get into mid 60s F (18C) at the warmest.
I do worry if they are adding this to buses what are they doing to MacBooks and your phone? Do people here think these devices are compromised or should we take Apple’s word for it!?
It's all the other stuff made in China that is the worry, not the stuff designed by Apple, or Google.