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.
@btp@kbin.social
If anything perhaps everyone involved should sue the train manufacturer for bricking the train with their DRM nonsense.
“Dragon Sector” is an OG name for a hacker firm.
“we discovered a ‘workshop-detection’ system built into the train software, which bricked the trains after some conditions were met (two of the trains even used a list of precise GPS coordinates of competitors’ workshops).”
That is an anti-trust violation du jure. I wonder what kind of anti-trust laws Poland has.