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Why more electric vehicles on Australian roads could bring risks · The Slippery Slope

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  Hi, Jay Fallon here. Thank you for listening to these
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  slippery slope. Now, listen, I've done a couple
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  of episodes discussing, how I believe electric vehicles pose
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  in my opinion, a fairly large threat especially giving control
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  to much control to our governments, too much control to
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  other people, to be able to control when we can, we can
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  charge air vehicles and how we move about.
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  So I believe electric vehicles open that door.
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  Or, and give the government too much control too much Advantage.
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  Insight into our life and funny enough.
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  Now, other people are starting to take note or starting to
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  speak out about security concerns when it comes to
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  electric vehicles. This, if this news article came
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  through from SBS news, the headline, says, why more
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  electric vehicles on Australian roads, could bring risks?
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  Now, in the previous episodes that I've done, I've spoken
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  about in the UK, Okay, they have legislation passed that with any
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  new charging station that you put that you install into your
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  home. It has to be connected to the
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  electric grid. Has to be monitored via internet
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  obviously. And then, the government can
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  monitor, our can tell you. When you can charge, they can
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  actually control when you charge your vehicle and they can turn
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  it, actually turn your charging on and off at their will.
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  If there is too much Load put on the electric grid that they can
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  shut down your charging of the your electric vehicle.
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  And this I believe is what gives them too much control.
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  We do not, you know, the system that we have in place, now you
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  can go to a petrol station, most stations are open 24 hours a
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  day. Specially in the city, you can
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  go on and fuel up as long as you've got the money to fuel up.
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  You can go and do it. Anytime people cannot be
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  controlled, whereas electric cars, you can be controlled
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  anyway. So as I said so, This headline,
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  says, why more electric vehicles on Australian roads could bring
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  risks. So, Australian Regulators, need
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  to consider cybersecurity when connecting electric vehicles to
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  the National Grid and expert warns to prevent major
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  disruptions. So connecting electric vehicles
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  to the National Grid. Could open the door to
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  cyberattacks and widespread power outages until Regulators
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  get the security settings, right?
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  Early Sworn love these, the experts all the time.
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  So despite a national consultation paper on Australian
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  transition to electric vehicles, energy experts said, the cyber
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  security implications of the move had yet to be flagged in
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  the discussion and needed to be prioritized.
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  So the head of the electric vehicle Council energy, and
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  infrastructure, Ross Durango, A spoken to a AP, tackling the
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  issue and he said, the tackling the issue was vital to
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  preventing costly or damaging outcomes.
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  You also says that Australians would use roughly 40%.
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  That's right. 40% more electricity after wide adoption
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  of electric vehicles. Mr. Durango said, and charging
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  them at once and during peak times could be calamitous.
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  Well no joke. Anyway he says a wall energy.
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  Companies could schedule orchestrate vehicle charging
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  like hot water systems. And as I said, giving energy
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  companies control over. I mean if you come home and you
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  need to charge your vehicle urgently they can still control.
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  That's the last thing you want. Someone else having control over
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  how you charge your vehicle. Anyway, goes on to say and he
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  said connecting this technology to the National good.
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  Grid could introduce new security threats.
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  He says that a hacker could, for example, exploit security, flaws
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  to force all vehicles to charge at the wrong time to create
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  power outages. He says, what happens if we are
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  building a system where all of the EV charging normally happens
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  at the right time and they malicious actor gets involved
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  and all of a sudden the EV charging happens at the wrong
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  time. He said, That's where cyber
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  security comes into it. Mr. Durango said security holes
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  could be exploited in software by vehicle manufacturers.
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  Well, software providers, or energy companies, unlike
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  traditional power connections, but who would have thunk it?
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  Hey, a Vehicle Manufacturer, could exploit the software that
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  would have thought that a Vehicle Manufacturer could
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  exploit an issue in the software to make more money.
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  And he says if we have a Future with the means of connection and
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  control is via the Internet. There is a threat surface there
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  that doesn't exist right now very true because we all like I
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  said, just go to the petrol station and fill up whenever we
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  want at our own discretion. We're not held at the mercy of
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  security companies or whatever else.
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  So continue with the article, in addition blackberry asia-pacific
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  and Japan. Ring director.
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  Jonathan Jackson said security flaws had already been
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  identified in electric vehicle, charging equipment overseas.
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  So, a study conducted by Carlos Alvarez College of Business in
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  the United States. Identified significant security
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  holes in 13 out of 16 EV charging stations so well over
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  50%, well over 50%, they've got significant security.
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  Holes, including missing authentication standards.
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  So the vulnerabilities just in the software alone on V's is
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  showing, we've got a long way to go at a global level not just in
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  Australia to ensure the security of the energy system and mr.
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  Jackson said we don't actually have a choice here.
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  Well actually we do it goes on to say if we've got the stated
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  gain of Evie's helping us to drive to Net Zero, Emissions.
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  We are absolutely going to need to tackle.
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  This head-on it's a matter of if not win and this is the whole
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  issue. We're being Corral de into the
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  corner and everyone is taking up this.
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  Let's not even get into the whole climate change, but
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  everyone is being told we have to do this.
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  Net Zero is a must. There is no choice.
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  We've been given no choice. And so, we're rushing headfirst
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  just like a bullet of the gate straight into the EV market.
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  And yet, there are all these Security risks besides the
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  government having, in my opinion, way too much control
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  electric companies, having way too much control.
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  You know, this the minutes you have like there said over, 40%
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  more, electric usage. You are going to start having
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  more brownouts and blackouts. So, mr.
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  Jackson also pointed to recent ransomware attacks on energy
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  suppliers, which include queensland's which is the state.
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  I live CS energy which happened in November. 20 21 and America's
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  Colonial pipeline in May as proof the National Grid could be
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  targeted but protecting Australia's power network was
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  achievable. He said if Regulators acted
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  early so he says once all the buildings have got smart EV
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  orchestrated, it's going to be incredibly costly for everyone
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  to bolts Security on afterwards. Listen, as I said, the concern
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  here for me is that we are Giving over jumping into
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  electric vehicles, gives over too much control to governments
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  to power stations, to power companies to the electric
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  vehicle companies, they will be able to control when and where,
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  and if you're allowed to charge your vehicle, thus controlling
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  where you can drive to how far you can drive to monitoring
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  where you're driving to controlling how far you go from
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  your home. You are giving we are giving way
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  too much over to people who are not concerned for our
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  well-being, our welfare. As we've seen in the last couple
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  of years with covid, the government's do not really care
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  about the people that they actually work for.
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  They will use any excuse whatsoever, any excuse to take
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  control over our lives this Farce of a lie, which is forcing
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  us into the electric vehicle Market is nothing more than
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  that. Then a lie that we need to get
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  Net Zero but hey, apparently, when I led to question, we're
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  not allowed to question anything anymore.
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  Net. Zero is all the rage and that's
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  all everyone wants to think about, as long as it gets us to
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  Net Zero. It doesn't matter what damage is
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  caused in the meantime, apparently that's my opinion.
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  Please let me know what you think.
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  Do you think going to electric vehicles?
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  Is just all good and we can trust the government's power
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  companies, electric vehicle companies.
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  Yep, it's all good. What do you think we're in for
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  some rocky times personally, I think that raising our
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  electricity use by 40% is going to have is going to cause huge
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  Huge issues with the Australian National Grid and our
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  electricity Market. That's just my opinion.
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  Thank you for listening to the slippery slope.