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Re:Norway reviews cybersecurity after remote-access feature ... by IAmBroom on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @01:07PM (#45825936)
Forget bricking them. How about driving their batteries to overheat? An entire fleet across a city enflamed...
Re:Norway reviews cybersecurity after remote-access feature ... by RealityVoid on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @01:55PM (#45826450)
Not sure that would be possible on demand, but... Yeah, there are tons of options there. Absolutely terrifying.

For context, for a short while I wrote SW for auto BCM's albeit the security stuff not the drive your batteries stuff.

Re:Norway reviews cybersecurity after remote-access feature ... by wil421 on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @02:21PM (#45826740)
Didn’t North Korea supposedly start a data center fire to cover their tracks? I believe they attached the UPS batteries.
Re:Norway reviews cybersecurity after remote-access feature ... by drykjdryj on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @02:47PM (#45827024)
Re:Norway reviews cybersecurity after remote-access feature ... by burnt-resistor on Friday November 07, 2025 @02:36PM (#45850134)
https://movieweb.com/speed-3-official-update-action-sequel-k...

Speed 3: The 'Net Unleashed with Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock needs to happen and should be about an EV bus held hostage by ransomware.

Re:Norway reviews cybersecurity after remote-access feature ... by SchemaLoad on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @07:06PM (#45829774)
If they were designed to do that from the start maybe. But usually low level stuff like battery management wouldn't be accessible to the main updatable OS. A lot of it isn't even software controlled, but physical parts designed to pop before things catch fire.