Re:Norway reviews cybersecurity after remote-access feature ...
by IAmBroom on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @01:07PM
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Forget bricking them. How about driving their batteries to overheat? An entire fleet across a city enflamed...
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Re:Norway reviews cybersecurity after remote-access feature ...
by RealityVoid on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @01:55PM
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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
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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 burnt-resistor on Friday November 07, 2025 @02:36PM
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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
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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.