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.

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.

  • BloodSlut@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    “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.”

    • Th3D3k0y@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      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.

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      right below war correspondents

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

      • Obinice@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 months 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.

    • Lev_Astov@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months 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.