The Associated Press seems to have just published whatever Tesla told them to say without any analysis.

The electric vehicle maker said in a statement Thursday night that its factory near Berlin, which makes Model Y vehicles and batteries, will pause from Jan. 29 to Feb. 11. …Tesla said. “The significantly longer transport times create a gap in the supply chains.”

Let’s start by asking why no other car factories are announcing such an extended shutdown. Volvo has said they are waiting two extra days for gearbox delivery. The specifics of that news make it believable.

Tesla seems either so empty-headed and over-exposed in their logistics that they shouldn’t be allowed to run a factory, or they are colossal liars. It could be both. Consider the news that demand for Tesla has totally cratered as nobody in Germany wants to buy old and unsafe designs manufactured with notoriously low quality.

Just as Tesla loses the EV crown, Elon Musk’s biggest market in Europe pulls the rug out from under him… Sales of Tesla cars in Germany, home to its only European manufacturing plant, plunged a breathtaking 77% in December year on year…

The German politicians who fell over themselves to allow Tesla to build a factory are now beset explaining all the safety and logistical failures since it opened in 2022 under false promises to generate 500,000 vehicles a year. Production has been slowing, although to be fair concerned Germans might just be better than most at counting real cars.

Tesla’s actual internal production targets are significantly lower. Internal documents from July and August show the production target of 870 vehicles per day and 4350 vehicles per week. So the target is 650 fewer cars per week than was originally announced by the US automaker in March.

There’s been much suspicion that lack of integrity in American accounting systems, not to mention lack of information security within Tesla, has allowed wildly inflated “production” numbers to game the stock market for years. In fact, Tesla in June of 2023 started to carelessly claim that the Berlin factory was going to roll out 1,000,000 cars per year. Presumably such a bald-faced lie was meant to target politicians who are easily fooled or corrupted, by simply throwing out numbers larger than the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, which delivers around 800,000 vehicles a year

Instead of producing cars promised, so far the egregious liars at Tesla mostly have produced injuries and environmental spills.

15,000 litres of paint, 150 litres of diesel and 13 tons of aluminium have been spilled at the Tesla Berlin factory.

What a mess. I expect someone will tell me next that workers are expected to take a diesel-powered train to reach the factory and many of them are illegal immigrants from Eastern Europe exploiting visa loopholes, even as the CEO of Tesla hypocritically rants about clean energy and closing borders.

Related: 2019 Police in Nevada discuss with workplace safety regulators how Tesla causes problems, as a signed warrant is blocked from being executed.

Tesla Factory Bodycam Footage: Case No. 19-491 May 21, 2019 9:47 AM

“Typically anywhere else, if you deny entry on a warrant you go to jail. That’s contempt of court, signed by a district judge. Period.

Tesla’s CEO caught lying.

Why?

Without fraud there would be no Tesla.

Jan 12, 2024: Tesla’s Cybertruck Can’t Beat A New Porsche 911 In The 1/4 Mile (Towing)

The State Department has posted sobering news for Americans who use dating apps when traveling to Columbia.

U.S. Embassy Bogota is aware of eight suspicious deaths of private U.S. citizens in Medellin between November 1 and December 31, 2023. The deaths appear to involve either involuntary drugging overdose or are suspected homicides. At this time, it is not believed these deaths are linked as each involved distinct circumstances, however several of the deaths point to possible drugging, robbery, and overdose, and several involve the use of online dating applications.

According to the Tourism Observatory of the District Personnel of Medellin, the number of thefts committed against foreign visitors (excluding Venezuelans) increased 200 percent in the third trimester of 2023 compared to the previous year and violent deaths of foreign visitors increased 29 percent. Most of the 2023 violent death victims were U.S. citizens.

Criminals use dating apps to lure victims to meet in public places such as hotels, restaurants, and bars, and then later assault and rob them. Numerous U.S. citizens in Colombia have been drugged, robbed, and even killed by their Colombian dates.

Really this warning is for all social networking apps in general anywhere in the world. Safety of them is not at the levels that people expect, and that gap is fatal, as the above data clearly shows.

Integrity is the often understated and sometimes ignored third leg of the information security triad: confidentiality, integrity and availability.

Confidentiality gets lots of press attention as privacy breach stories make headlines. Availability needs no headlines to get attention since everyone immediately knows when their information isn’t accessible. Poor integrity, however, is like debating scientific consensus. It’s a step into Plato’s philosophical conundrum of shadows on a cave wall. What is right, what is real?

I’ve said for a decade now or more we are in the age of integrity breaches. Moreover I’ve said we have largely solved for confidentiality and availability…

With that in mind, the following story highlights once again how the security industry must immediately focus itself more on integrity solutions.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said he will introduce measures to reverse the convictions of more than 900 Post Office branch managers wrongly accused of theft or fraud because of a faulty computer system in what is considered one of the gravest injustices in the nation’s history.

The announcement Wednesday follows a TV docudrama on the wrongdoing that created a huge surge of public support for the former postmasters who have spent years trying to reclaim lives ruined by the scandal.

A TV show.

It was a TV show that forced top managers of a fraudulent and corrupt information system to admit their abuse of innocent users.

That’s a textbook definition of integrity being compromised. Integrity was hacked. And from all accounts this was an easy case to prove.

This case also should be seen as foreshadowing, given the NHS deal being inked with a notoriously immoral firm Palantir. Expect even more lives to be ruined at a faster pace and in more ways.

The phrase Integrity Breach is what government regulators need to become comfortable with, and start to enforce ASAP with clear boundaries, as they have done with “privacy breaches” (e.g. California’s SB1386 in 2003) or “downtime”.

To put it another way, if computer engineering was even remotely disciplined like any other engineering skill, when someone grossly violated the duty to do no harm to society (e.g. when they built bridges that collapsed) there would be some accountability and far less fraud.