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Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them (www.404media.co)

submitted 11 months ago by btp@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

TIL that [security CTF](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_the_flag_(cybersecurity)) is

an exercise in which participants attempt to find text strings, called "flags", which are secretly hidden in purposefully-vulnerable programs or websites

Never heard of this and I may not be alone in that. Thanks for pointing this out.

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I did one before. They are SO MUCH FUN. Now I have too many children.

sob

edit: There are other ways of capturing the flag like having your team name on the home page of a local web server or whatever.

[–] Wes_Dev@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You make it sound like the event ends in an orgy.

[–] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

The good ones do