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Comment by lousken | Hacker News Reader

shouldn't EU also investigate this a little?

The EU is not a federal government. It can investigate only if there is misuse of EU budget money or the country government is breaching it's union obligations. Otherwise, the country aligns its laws to the common european framework and then the country government is responsible for investigating when someone breaks those laws.

It's VERY unlikely EU funds were never involved. Public transport and transport infrastructure is often incentivized with public money, usually with EU participation. It's hard to find big projects that had 0 EU funding.

It's not a magic spell that works across corporate entity boundaries. The company itself must have taken a relevant contract project. There must be a clear intent to defraud the EU fund (defrauding others is not enough).

> There must be a clear intent to defraud the EU fund (defrauding others is not enough).

Saying defrauding others does not seem right to me. If you defraud a distributor of EU funds, that may have impacted EU funds; they would have a claim.

Do you have a source for your assertion?

I meant defrauding others who might have used EU funds to pay for your services - that's not defrauding the EU and a different court and agency will handle it.

What about NATO?

Surely embedding a remotely triggered off-switch, as a vulnerability for military and commercial trains (and the overall supply chain logistics) would merit some kind of investigation?

Can't anyone with an antenna in a semi-close proximity spoof GPS signals that would engage these mechanisms?

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