It is actually far worse than just corporate greed.
It shows an embedded vulnerability into the entire supply chain, a national security issue caused by corruption.
They should get awards and payouts for bringing this to light now rather than the lives it would cost during a world war.
If the company makes it so these trains stop functioning once they are in specific locations, what determines that location? A weak GPS radio signal (which have had issues with spoofing in the past)?
What would happen if that radio signal was maliciously crafted and broadcast towards trains with targeted payloads that engage this functionality? Harvests/food stuffs rot?
This line of thought doesn't require genius level IQ, given the plots in some of the movies today even a relative dunce could compare and come up with this. Food security has been an issue for every country for millennia.
Governments that have functioning representatives do, because by doing so it saves themselves.
When the delusional, blind, and evil get into positions of power like this, take no beneficial action, make systems brittle and prone to breakage, and act as a front-of-line blocker for others that would take action to correct, then things go bad, really bad.
Their actions end up culminating in self-induced destruction directly or more often indirectly. Once you have no food, there is no way to produce it fast enough. If you can't transport it, there is no way to get it to locations with demand (it rots).
There are many cascade failures where after some critical juncture has been met, there is nothing that can be done to resolve the issue. A kobayashi maru, a great wave of destruction that you know is coming, but hasn't arrived yet, but everything is in its path (including themselves), and they can't change that.
Its the fundamental nature of evil people to destroy themselves, and others within their sphere of influence, and they most often don't even realize it because they've accepted delusion making them predictable always making choices that seek such outcomes (while claiming and believing they aren't).
The unfounded belief that A doesn't lead to B, when observations and objective measures (based externally in reality) and related predictions show A leads to B.
They should get awards and payouts for bringing this to light now rather than the lives it would cost during a world war.
If the company makes it so these trains stop functioning once they are in specific locations, what determines that location? A weak GPS radio signal (which have had issues with spoofing in the past)?
What would happen if that radio signal was maliciously crafted and broadcast towards trains with targeted payloads that engage this functionality? Harvests/food stuffs rot?
This line of thought doesn't require genius level IQ, given the plots in some of the movies today even a relative dunce could compare and come up with this. Food security has been an issue for every country for millennia.