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Comment Access does at least appear to be encrypted (Score 4, Informative) 24

Samsik confirmed that it had been contacted by Movia and said that it was “not aware of any specific cases of deactivation of electric buses”.

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Yutong said it “strictly complies with the applicable laws, regulations, and industry standards of the locations where its vehicles operate” and that Yutong vehicle terminal data in the EU were stored at an Amazon Web Services (AWS) datacentre in Frankfurt.

A spokesperson added: “This data is used solely for vehicle-related maintenance, optimisation and improvement to meet customers’ after-sales service needs. The data is protected by storage encryption and access control measures. No one is allowed to access or view this data without customer authorisation. Yutong strictly complies with the EU’s data protection laws and regulations.”

The summary implies that remote deactivation is not that difficult, that does not appear to be the case.
I'm not really familiar with Tesla vehicles, do they have remote deactivation? Does any other car manufacturer have that?

Comment Re:Nothing should be pre installed (Score 1) 29

Every single phone, when started for the first time, should be spanking clean, with any additional software selected through the setup wizard on first power on cycle.

I'm not familiar with the iPhone setup, but that is simply not realistic with Android systems. Android devices come with a number of apps providing core functionality, Samsung Android devices come with an additional set of apps providing alternatives to the ones Google supply (and some of them are actually better).
I find it annoying that I can't delete apps from either set, apps which I don't need, don't want, and only notice when Play Store updates them every few days. At least crap like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok are not in that list - they were on a previous phone and all I could do was "Force Stop".

Comment Re:Permanently wrong time is silly (Score 4, Interesting) 159

Think of Spain.
Their dictator - General Franco - adopted the same time zone as Germany in order to express his love of Adolf Hitler, that was effectively permanent summer time. I don't know if Germany had DST during WW2 (I think they did) but they did not reintroduce DST until around 1980, Spain followed suit.
Bottom line, Spain is effectively on Summer Time in winter, and two hours ahead in summer. The Spanish have adapted in that they do everything an hour later than the other countries in their time zone.
Franco died in 1975 but the country has remained on CET, Portugal uses the same time zone as the UK.

Comment Re:Aardvark (Score 1) 20

I'm not sure I agree there, these browsers are doing stoopid shit while Aardvark is just supposed to make sure they are doing that safely.
Should Aardvark be exerting that level of control over the actual functionality of the browser? (probably Yes). Do Aardvark's developers know that?

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Comment Google practically forced me to use F-Droid (Score 1) 49

A few months ago all the apps I wanted could be found in their Play Store, and it was good.
Then Google banned an app called Öffi from the play store. For the second time.
The first time was a few years back, one of the sub-menus asked for donations if you had downloaded the app from the developer's website rather than Play Store. A few weeks later they accepted that they had messed up and reintroduced the app, something which is yet to happen this time - they have not even said why they removed it. I use public transport in Germany quite frequently - I don't have a car there - and Öffi is pretty much essential there.
Now I have (I think) 3 more apps from F-Droid.

Comment Re:I want to keep the status quo (Score 1) 163

Western Europe should be 2-3

Portugal and Ireland are an hour behind the main block of EU countries (CET), Spain should be as well but General Franco decreed that his country should be in the same timezone as his hero (Adolf Hitler) and they never changed it back after he died. I suppose France should also be in the same time zone as Portugal, Ireland and the UK but that probably has more to with wanting to have the same time as the rest of the original EU (called Common Market then) rather than a desire to have Adolf Hitler time.
Finland, the Baltic countries, Romania, Bulgaria and Greece are all an hour ahead of CET.

some countries are 1AM, some are 2AM, some are 3AM.

Are the 1AM ones Portugal and Ireland, the 2AM crew those on CET and the 3AM ones the next block? That would mean they would shift their clocks at the exact same time.

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