For the last few years there has been a growing concern that China is embedding back doors into hardware and software that they are manufacturing or coding for communications devices.
ELD's would be a #### good way for someone with deep penetration into the ELD market to map out where US manufacturers of military equipment send their shipments, the routes that are taken, the schedules used, and the staging points and rest areas most frequented.
While this sort of data isn't going to be truly useful outside an actual attack on the nation, there is a lot more data that can be inferred from truck traffic. Metadata on troop readiness or when the supplies at bases are lowest. It night even be worth China's time and effort to try and create accidents for truly high tech shipments of cutting edge equipment, either to destroy it, or capture samples. It really doesn't take much to force a truck at speed to wreck in some stretches of mountainous interstates.
So, does anyone know if the US government has ever seriously considered that the ELD networks might be compromised and providing China with enormous amounts of metadata that can be used to generate some rather accurate frameworks of data that would be useful to know if we were to ever become adversaries?
Just had a disturbing thought about electronic logging devices the other day.
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Just wow.
LOL. .. Eld data will not in any way shape or form tell China anything about our troop movements.
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If someone has a back door into major ELD providers, they could mine out a lot of area-specific data very quickly.
For instance, collect all duty changes within 1/8 mile of the GPS coordinates of a munitions supplier. Then track those loads, identifying GPS data with each stop of each load.
Monitor for six months. Bam. You now have the network of common delivery paths and timetables, and where the munitions are staged and offloaded. You also know if the deliveries are made regularly, and how many times per month.singlescrewshaker and Timin770 Thank this. -
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Lots of if's in this world so calm down. Worst they could do is ruin your engine first.
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