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› Forums › Inside the Lawless New World of Electric-Scooter Hacking
Tagged: SmartCity_V5b, Tips_G9
#News(Security) [ via IoTForIndiaGroup ]
It’s a problem emblematic of a product that flooded the market with scant regard for the practicalities of city space (like scooters being left on sidewalks to be tripped over) or weird late-capitalist frictions. As with everything else that’s gone wrong with this grand experiment, the startups have tended to ignore or downplay the charger issues.
We couldn’t have expected anything else of a connected vehicular toy provided at mass scale with almost no warning or meaningful oversight: These scooters were made to be broken — and broken into.