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| Bicurico:
What I meant is that an MCU can have hidden functionalities and backdoors which use the onboard infrastructure for its monitoring activity. |
| MadScientist:
--- Quote from: Bicurico on January 14, 2023, 06:36:02 pm ---What I meant is that an MCU can have hidden functionalities and backdoors which use the onboard infrastructure for its monitoring activity. --- End quote --- clearly that “hidden functionalities @ must have geo location ability the issue most likely is that was added after the car was bought not added during manufacture |
| Black Phoenix:
There is some misunderstanding in this. A SIM is not a tracking device. A SIM is a Subscriber Identification Module by itself (normally a microchip card). A UE (user equipment, could be a phone of a modem for example) is needed for the SIM to work. Without it a SIM is just a card that carries an unique IMSI that is used (after being converted to TMSI in the network) as identification of a subscriber. Although is true that a UE can "see" many Cell IDs (and a Cell ID is normally a NodeB/Base Station or a group of them in the same geographical location) the only info she get is signal strength (in dBs) and Cell ID number. The geographical info is not transmitted to the UE since the UE doesn't need to know where he is geographically. He only need to know what Cell IDs are available and by the signal strength he can by itself request connection and handover tasks. That geographic location is only known by the Service Provider as administrative info, for maintenance use. It is never relayed on the network to any equipment. The UE cannot triangulate his location, the NodeB/Base Station can triangulate a UE by signal strength. If no GPS module is also installed such can't be used to triangulate geographically (via data acquisition and database filling directly in the MCU/device in the car itself) and if it is then the UE and respective SIM will only be used to relay info back, via a data up link. All of this to say that except if China have agents/contacts in the telecom company such tracking will be almost impossible to do just with a UE/SIM. Or in the country's security forces but if it is this one, I think that here are a lot more problems of spying that just a simple car tracking... I worked from 2009 to 2015 as a NSN Core Network Engineer in the biggest Mobile Phone Service Provider (at the time) in Portugal, so I know the outs and ins of how 2G, 3G and 4G network work in terms of location and identification of a user - I had to by law sometimes do such as request by the Justice of Portugal, being police or higher forces. |
| MrMobodies:
--- Quote from: BravoV on January 08, 2023, 08:19:32 am ---Just another gov. official got busted by their spouse of cheating, instead of major embarrassment, why not use the opportunity to boost the Axis of Evil China rhetoric. >:D --- End quote --- https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/13/matt-hancock-kiss-images-ico-inquiry-no-prosecutions --- Quote ---Government department removes Chinese cameras that caught Matt Hancock’s affair By Elly Blake 27 June 2022 he Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has said it will remove cameras made by Chinese CCTV firm Hikvision. The DWP confirmed it “will not be using any security camera equipment manufactured in China” amid an overhaul of its security apparatus. The Chinese company Hikvision has more than a million cameras installed in schools, hospitals and police departments across the UK. However, it is at the centre of controversy after last year a Hikvision camera recorded Matt Hancock embracing an aide, which forced him to resign. There are also concerns by civil liberties campaign groups that it was added to the Chinese government’s persecution of the Uyghur minority. It comes after the Department for Health banned the procurement of any new Hikvision equipment amid a Whitehall crackdown on the company. Meanwhile, MPs have urged the government to stop buying its cameras and other security systems. Hikvision, which is part-owned by the Chinese government, has been blacklisted in the US. In a letter to campaigners at Big Brother Watch, a civil liberties campaign group, the DWP said: “During the next three years, the department is undertaking a capital investment programme to update and upgrade its physical security systems. “The Department will not be using any security camera equipment manufactured in China as part of this programme.” According to a Freedom of Information request released last yearm the DWP has 194 cameras installed at 51 locations. A Hikvision spokesman told the Telegraph: “It must be clarified that Hikvision does not respond directly to public tenders. “Like all manufacturers, we sell through distribution partners and not directly to the end user. Tenders by government departments, which adhere to a strict procurement process are with installer contractors. “In the case of the DWP, one of our partners was invited to bid for the contract in a fair process. On this occasion they came in second in a very competitive tendering process. “This was carried out in the same way as any other bid for a public tender, Hikvision was not disqualified on the basis of nationality. “It is important to note that this is not a sudden rip and replace – all tenders take time to adhere to due process, the DWP tender in question is no exception. “Although our partner did not win this particular project they have since been awarded some smaller installations.” Big Brother Watch said the decision to remove Hikvision cameras from the DWP was an “an enormously welcome development that could not come soon enough”. They added: “Given the role Hikvision plays in the ongoing brutal repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang. These surveillance companies have no place in the UK and it is an outrage that taxpayers’ money is funding companies so closely linked to genocide.” The Standard has contacted the DWP for comment. --- End quote --- I wonder who exposed them on camera? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/13/matt-hancock-kiss-images-ico-inquiry-no-prosecutions --- Quote --- The footage and stills of the embrace, which prompted his resignation as health secretary, were leaked to the Sun in June last year. It was most likely obtained by someone using their phone to record a CCTV screen, the ICO said. --- End quote --- Joke: If they see something they don't like and it involves equipment from China lets starting banning it. What about partygate? I wonder what equipment manufacturer they blamed for the photographs it took? https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/25/partygate-pictures-taken-by-no-10-photographers-may-be-released-16704580/ --- Quote ---Potentially damaging further details, including the names of some of those who attended gatherings and photographs taken by official No 10 photographers will also be published. --- End quote --- |
| MadScientist:
--- Quote from: bigfoot22 on January 08, 2023, 05:16:45 am --- :palm: Daily Mail. --- End quote --- More reliable news can be found in the “Beano “ |
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