UK Govt Car: Tracking SIM found in sealed part imported from China

https://inews.co.uk/news/hidden-chinese-tracking-device-government-car-national-security-2070152

by shalmanese • 4 years ago

15 6 4 years ago

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willnonya• 4 years ago

After the 6th paragraph regurgitating the same lines without anything identifying which part contained the sim card I gave up reading this.

The writer seems to believe that sim cards themselves transmit data.

headalgorithm• 4 years ago

You gave up too early:

"Electronic Control Units (ECUs), which are responsible for the smooth operation of a vehicle’s engine and predominantly sought from China, are embedded with SIM cards before being sent to car manufacturers as sealed units, according to a serving security source.

The manufacturers fit the parts in cars without opening them because of various warranty and commercial agreements, the serving security source said."

And further down the page:

"How SIM cards can be used to track vehicles

SIM cards are commonplace in vehicles, installed by car manufacturers for connectivity purposes, or simply to feed back data on the performance of a car. Most cars will have at least a 2G connection. But intelligence officials warn they have created an increased vulnerability to eavesdropping from hostile states.

Most commercial trackers are essentially SIM cards attached to batteries and every geolocation tracker that sends data via a cellular network requires one. A built-in navigation system in a car with the ability to give live traffic updates will need a SIM card to connect to a signal.

However, the SIMs allegedly embedded in ECUs by Chinese companies are put there without the car manufacturers’ knowledge and appear to give the Chinese suppliers the ability to connect to the car and collect data – including where it has been, how long it has been stopped in a certain place, and even the way in which it has been driven."

rasz• 4 years ago

Thats the exact techno ignoramus drivel OP was complaining about.

codesniperjoe• 4 years ago

TLDR: gps tracker with backup battery and activated sim card found in sealed car ECU (BTO from china, to save some pennies, in a high-security-custom build car)

hulitu• 4 years ago

The geolocating device had been placed into a vehicle inside a sealed part imported from a supplier in China and installed by the vehicle manufacturer, according to the source.

Every new car has this.

Welcome to the future.

What is worriying is the writers have no idea about this.

UK Govt Car: Tracking SIM found in sealed part imported from China

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