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Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them (www.404media.co)
submitted 1 year 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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[–] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 165 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's awesome. Man, fuck that company. Bricking a train? Outrageous.

[–] Bizarroland@kbin.social 80 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Poland ought to ban that company from ever working or operating or selling any products inside of its country and any trains made by that company that are not currently owned by Poland should be prevented from traveling on the tracks that cross through Poland.

[–] SpookyUnderwear@eviltoast.org 31 points 1 year ago

This is the kind of government intervention I can get behind. This story is so outrageous, it's hard to believe it's true.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Maybe make it the entire executive and senior management, rather than the company.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

I feel like train operators will have heard of this, and will not be accepting that company's tenders

[–] vinhill@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Realistically, that would be quite an overreaction and the corporation does have valuable knowledge and skill in creating trains. But how great it would be if this were to cause open source code to be a requirement...

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Run by fucking criminals. We should brick them like they're The Sticky Bandits

[–] AlwaysNowNeverNotMe@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

Better to brick them like The Cask of Amontillado.

[–] pelotron@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago

Great idea, Marv.