Obviously it would keep calling...

The point was likely to see what would happen if they could be 100% sure it couldn't connect in anyway.

Before deciding if it's worth attempting to find every conney, you need to verify what happens if you did succeed.

Like, finding out it bricks every vehicle after 24 hrs means it's useless to bother and they need banned.

The car kept attempting to reach servers

To the surprise of whom?

ANY device that relies on radio signal communication for any of its functionality, taken anywhere (underground mine, parking garage, Antarctica, Santa's workshop, etc), and it'll try to maintain it's connections. That's just what they do.

Step 1: make a PiHole

Step 2: examine every thing the PiHole blocks from calling home

Step 3: research small holdings

Step 4: throw it all out and go farm Llamas

Seriously, I own a Firestick as a jellyfin client. It's network access is limited to local only. Anyway, here's one entry from that Firestick on one PiHole:

global.telemetry.insights.video.a2z.com 42590

Number is the number of times my PiHole has smacked it down. One entry, from one stick, to one PiHole (I have a redundant one too).

Why on Earth wouldn't it keep trying? That's how signals work. If my router goes down my computer is going to keep trying to connect to it even though it's off. That's not fucking news.

My BMW checking if my bmw subscription is active when I'm trying to enable seat heater

Somebody smarter than I will definitely delve into the guts of incoming Chinese EVs and figure out what part(s) to strip to stop this...

And if you're in America and you have an EV, it's statistically likely to be a Tesla. Tesla has starlink compatibility baked into their cars too and you'd better believe that sweet juicy data is being shared around.

If I was stuck with a Tesla against my will, I'd at least try the same thing for it, too.

This article is so stupid with the dumbest fearmongering clickbait title -

Anything that calls home will try to call home. Connection or not. You put an LG tv (edit: just found out that when LG and TV are put together without a space, it gets censored?) in a faraday cage and it will try to phone home. There's no reason it would suddenly stop doing that because there's no point to adding another line of code to get it to stop when it doesn't need to.

Not to mention that the important part is this:

The critical caveat: the traffic was encrypted. Researchers could document destinations and data volumes, but not the content of the packets themselves. No evidence of specific personal data exfiltration was found, and the tests do not prove that NIO is transmitting sensitive information to Chinese authorities.

Now compare that to a plethora of other car manufacturers that don't even bother to encrypt your data and explicitly say that you will be tracked by them and have your data sold.

https://cybernews.com/privacy/mozilla-cars-track-sexual-activity-sell-data/

cars track even sexual activity, sell user data to third parties

And this is exactly why runor has it military installations in my country don't allow EVs to enter at all.

Can't this be solved with legislation? I mean, all they have to do is say "no vehicles may be sold within our borders if they attempt to communicate with any servers." Vehicles never did this 15 years ago and it's insane they operate like massive phones with wheels now.

The car kept attempting to reach servers, most of them located in China

Now try the same experiment with cars from other countries.

And then let's hear from someone who can tell the world how to disable this anti-feature without breaking the car that we bought and paid for.

Oh no think of our own GDPR compliant surveillance. (it's still surveillance)

If I take my cellphone into a cave it too will keep calling home.

China isn’t the only one

https://wikileaks.org/vault7/

Ah, because neither Google nor Apple track their users and would never, ever share said data with US (or other) agencies... right? RIGHT?

I have Chinese manufactured IP cameras. they do not connect to the internet. yet, they still attempt to connect to Chinese servers at least once a minute.

this has been going on for at least 15 years.

Oh NO! China might harvest the kind of data that Google, Meta, Tesla, and other US companies have had a monopoly on stealing.

It's weird that they didn't use a Faraday cage which should have been way cheaper.

A more honest researcher would say "bought any vehicle from x country and it kept trying to contact servers in x country even after driving it into a mine". They lose credibility when they try to insinuate that this only happens with EVs and only with China made vehicles.

With all our formidable intelligence and NSA capability and massive massive funding, no one can tell whats in those communications after all this time huh. We even have physcial access to the devices and we still cant figure it out. Next time we are told the government needs to remove citizens constitional rights to privacy or needs us to use insecure encryption keys, we should all question what the hell for. And next time I hear "Israel helps us with our intelligence" I want to hear what they came up with in understyanding what chinese devices are sending home, or they can shut the hell up. So far all we seem capable of is spying on our own citizens, IF we all use insecure communications and allow our every movement in public to be videoed. I am not impressed.

Lol wut. What kind of scaremongering BS article is this?

Telemetry system attempts to phone home during connectivity interruption

"FIRE UP THE PRESSES!"

It has a kill switch, too

(I have no evidence other than The Odyssey and everything that has happened since)

Am I the only one in this thread that feels like a vehicle here shouldn't even have any form of internet connection regardless what nation it is from? The fact that this is from China doesn't matter. Why does a vehicle even need network equipment (other than a FM radio at most)?

My Chev calls the US!

Ni hao