Thursday, 7 December 2023

Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware hacking

quote [ A condition has been written in the computer code to disable the ability to run a train if it spends at least 10 days in one of these workshops. ]

Some crass story about Polish hackers checking and fixing illegal obsolence code from the train industry.
[SFW] [travel] [+4 WTF]
[by Paracetamol@6:29amGMT]

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mechanical contrivance said @ 6:53pm GMT on 7th Dec [Score:1 Underrated]
Hopefully, the train manufacturer gets an enormous fine, but the article makes it sound like that's unlikely.
Paracetamol said @ 8:59am GMT on 17th Dec
hackers are being sued now, btw:

Hackers Hit With Legal Threats After They Fixed a 'Bricked' Polish Train


The hackers claim Polish trains were deliberately bricked by the manufacturer and they were just providing a service. “It’s DRM gone wild.”


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