"It's only a little" is perfectly reasonable when 'a little' is below the threshold of doing harm. For example, mercury compounds are still used in medicine because the risk of harm is negligible at the concentrations it is used. Flourine is cartoonishly dangerous but it is in water and toothpaste.
Small aircraft make up a very tiny fraction of gasoline consumption and an engine failure is a lot more serious for them than a car. It's really only a problem if you spend a lot of time hanging around airports.
It could be, but it could also be trivial given the 8x lead consumption in the 80's.
I think the whole protein powder industry is a fad but having the CBC legitimize claims like this is how you feed anti-science smooth brains. They get to point at the 'health product' and call foul because the CBC said there is killer lead in it. It took seconds to find the Canadian lead numbers, the CBC could have done the same to give context.
A single serving of these protein powders contained between 1,200 and 1,600 percent of CR’s level of concern for lead, which is 0.5 micrograms per day.
Canadians consume on average 0.1ug per kg bodyweight per day so that 0.5ug 'level of concern' is bullshit.
Do you lock your door? Why, people don't just go into other people's houses, they're not inclined to do so.
The point is having vehicles vulnerable to such trivial abuse is unacceptable. It only takes one cunt who decides that he wants to randsomeware every Toyota in the world to spoil the party.
Boo fucking hoo, China is the IP theft capital of the world. Their entire export economy is based on using slavery to build designs they stole from others. There is a reason that security conscious companies do their final board assembly (installing custom silicon and flashing ROMs) in North America, if it was done in China, with the rest of the board, there would be clones on the market within a week.
It's in dodge vehicles now, the other manufactures will follow soon. It saves a fuck ton of wising when you only need to run a single power wire and data bus to each light cluster instead of power for high beams, low beams, fog lights, indicators and vanity wank lights.
Modern cars expose the engine/body control CAN bus through the fucking headlights. You don't need to be in the car and it doesn't need to be on for you to have the same or more access than the OBDII port.
It doesn't matter what the country of origin is, someone is gonna find a way to break OTA updates, gain access via exposed wireless networks or just pop off a CAN bus controlled light and plug in. How long before someone pushes a malicious update that causes the ABS to disable or degrade braking to near 0%, or just throw the electronic power steering full left whenever the speed exceeds 101km/h?
A vulnerability was found this year in an undisclosed major car manufacture in the USA that gave total control to an attacker over all vehicles sold by that manufacture's dealerships. Remote start/shutoff, unlock doors, GPS tracking, even transferring the ownership to another person. All modern vehicles are a security nightmare, the chinese are no better, no worse. https://eaton-works.com/2025/10/13/def-con-33/
This is possible with most modern vehicles today. They nearly all have cellular modems built in and very few have the driving related systems separated from the 'infotainment' crapware. 2014ish jeeps could be bricked by OTA updates to the fucking radio, there's a good Defcon talk about it
"It's only a little" is perfectly reasonable when 'a little' is below the threshold of doing harm. For example, mercury compounds are still used in medicine because the risk of harm is negligible at the concentrations it is used. Flourine is cartoonishly dangerous but it is in water and toothpaste.