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.
This story should be on every newspaper front page right below war correspondents.
right below war correspondents
Eh, they should report war on the same page as the weather if you ask me.
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.
“We didn’t add a kill switch to our trains to force the use of our maintenance service, but fuck the hackers that removed the kill switch we didn’t implement, and the trains that were hacked and don’t have the kill switch we didn’t add should be removed from service.”
Dear Reader,
Regarding your recent free and non-profitable un-fucking of our problem, please use the honor system and manually refuck yourself.
Love, Technology Companies.
That’s awesome. Man, fuck that company. Bricking a train? Outrageous.
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.
unfortunately they have a right wing government so it’s likely they’ll want more of this not less
They just swore in the new Cabinet today. They still have a far right President and Judiciary to contend with but the legislature is a coalition of centrists and leftists now.
Run by fucking criminals. We should brick them like they’re The Sticky Bandits
The person is doing a talk about it in hamburg, germany (37c3) next week. Its on my to watch list because that sounds hella interresting.
Edit : 37c3 list of talks : https://halfnarp.events.ccc.de/#dec115da17562cebafa9ba7a150a4fc607c25c880c03593dcc8da6087c9441a4
That actually does sound hella interesting. I’m saving your comment to try to remember but actually look it up in about two years when I scroll back though my saved posts.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/@mediacccde
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I’m saving your comment to try to remember their comment to try to remember to watch that.
C3 talks are available online for quite some time after the actual event, so you might still be able to watch it then.
Where “quite some time” is “indefinite”. Proper archives go back to 2002, 19c3.
Takes some time for stuff to show up in the archives though as start+end get cut manually, while the congress is running there’s always an archive of raw steam dumps maybe that’s the one you mean.
It’s 37c3, but thx for the hint. The talk is called Breaking “DRM” in Polish trains by Redford, q3k, MrTick
I will try to watch it on stage, unfortunately still no final schedule available
Fixed the edition number. I always forget what number we are at haha. I will not be on site, but i saved it in my planner : https://halfnarp.events.ccc.de/#dec115da17562cebafa9ba7a150a4fc607c25c880c03593dcc8da6087c9441a4
Nowadays satire can never be as good as reality is.
