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.

  • @ShittyBeatlesFCPres
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    2991 year ago

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

    • Lev_Astov
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      351 year 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
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      -1101 year ago

      right below war correspondents

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

      • Obinice
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        771 year 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.

          • @[email protected]
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            281 year ago

            That’s generous but their user history makes it pretty obvious that they’re mad about aid being sent at all when it could go to paying off their student loan debt instead.

            • @force
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              231 year ago

              as if those are mutually exclusive things to have lol

        • @[email protected]
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          51 year ago

          My reading of that was “climate change will kill most of our species in the long term if we don’t take it seriously, so that’s also something very important to track and belongs on the same page as wars.”.