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Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them (www.404media.co)

submitted 11 months ago by btp@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

unfortunately they have a right wing government so it's likely they'll want more of this not less

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 36 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I was wondering why Orban "left the room" when the EU Council voted for initiating membership negotiations with Ukraine (thus abstaining) rather than vote against it (and thus veto it) and thought that maybe he didn't have Poland covering his back anymore (in the sense of stopping later reprisals if he blocked it), at least when it came to his pro-Russia posture.

Now given that change in Poland, I'm thinking it's a much more far reaching thing and Hungary is now much closer to have their rights suspended as an EU Member.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yes, however there is still a natural resistance to kicking anyone out of a political entity. Just because nobody wants to start those conversations for fear of their name getting floated.