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Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them (www.404media.co)
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In one of the coolest and more outrageous repair stories in quite some time, three white-hat hackers helped a regional rail company in southwest Poland unbrick a train that had been artificially rendered inoperable by the train’s manufacturer after an independent maintenance company worked on it. The train’s manufacturer is now threatening to sue the hackers who were hired by the independent repair company to fix it.

After breaking trains simply because an independent repair shop had worked on them, NEWAG is now demanding that trains fixed by hackers be removed from service.

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[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 274 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This story should be on every newspaper front page right below war correspondents.

[–] Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago

Yeah, especially in the EU where apparently their laws regarding circumventing DRM might make the people who fixed this the bad guys instead of this comically evil manufacturer who put GPS kill switches on public passenger trains.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

right below war correspondents

Eh, they should report war on the same page as the weather if you ask me.

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Let us know what country you're in, so the next time you're invaded and genocided we'll remember it's barely as important as the weather forecast.