

Tech companies have been using software updates to brick devices for ages now, amazing that MPs become frothing-at-the-mouth Stallmanists only when a Chinese company has this ability. The actual fix is to regulate the kind of software companies can install on devices and mandate that consumers can install alternative software (similar to the FSFE’s router freedom campaign), not finding a digital autocrat that Whitehall finds acceptable.
The energy sector is not just about kilowatts and carbon. It’s about sovereignty, security and resilience.
Thank god the grid isn’t owned by a bunch of shareholders that don’t care about security and resilience, right?






















I think it’s fair to point out that tech companies in allied countries already use these mechanisms against British consumers, that the government hasn’t taken action on it, and that making this out to be a problem unique to the Chinese technology industry is a misdiagnosis.