{"id":153123,"date":"2026-06-18T01:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T01:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153123"},"modified":"2026-06-18T01:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T01:00:05","slug":"china-mulls-space-based-control-system-for-high-speed-rail-can-it-be-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153123","title":{"rendered":"China mulls space-based control system for high-speed rail. Can it be hacked?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostOn a summer evening in 2011, two high-speed trains hurtling through the Chinese countryside met in a fireball of twisted metal and shattered glass. The Wenzhou disaster, as it came to be known, killed 40 people and injured nearly 200.<br \/>\nThe official inquiry traced the catastrophe to a lightning strike that had fried a trackside circuit, making one train \u201cinvisible\u201d to the control centre, which then wrongly cleared the line for the train behind.<br \/>\nHowever, could the \u201cbrain\u201d of the railway ever be&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3356721\/china-mulls-space-based-control-system-high-speed-rail-can-it-be-hacked?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostOn a summer evening in 2011, two high-speed trains hurtling through the Chinese countryside met in a fireball of twisted metal and shattered glass.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153123"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}