It's a pointless discussion - the heart of the matter is that the investigators said it's a sophisticated intel-agency implant put there by a possibly foreign adversary. You're saying "in your experience you wouldn't put a bug where Daniel said he'd like to put it" as an attempt to discredit...
Great work! Would love some brighter, closer up pictures of that board please. Do you know if it's fitted by a third party? I've seen those nipple panic buttons from local tracking companies. If it was fitted by Volvo I'd expect it to be in the body.
fwiw, OBS - Orange Business Services is a separate Orange group business from Orange Cyberdefense. Also the pentest team within OCD is called SensePost.
Hello @singe from SensePost / Orange Cyberdefense here. There's a good discussion on this at if you're interested in the tech. Fitz identified the second chip, it's https://www.ti.com/product/CC1200 .
I saw someone was expecting a SensePost ad to pop up, so here's one "SensePost, still hacking...