Comment by coldtea

5 hours ago

>The transport operator stressed there is no evidence of misuse but said the discovery moves concerns “from suspicion to concrete knowledge”. (...) The case comes as Chinese electric buses are increasingly adopted across global markets,

If a state wants to hide strategic "war/espionage" control, they don't use eSims and open mobile communications, trivially discoverable and traceable. Sounds like some bs "IoT" / telemetry shit manufactures are shoving down our throats for over a decade.

The other side is feigning shock at common industry practices (don't all Tesla's require a net connection for example), to paint it as some unique issue, and kill their sales. In other words , just another episode in the trade war.

Not unlike the DJI drones, which added all kinds of shit because the regulators demanded it, and then they act surprised that it has that shit...