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

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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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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[–] EdibleFriend 35 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I hate this fucking planet.

[–] DuckOverload 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think this is pretty cool. Sure, capitalists are gonna capitalist, but here we have subversive moves in a positive direction.

[–] EdibleFriend 13 points 10 months ago

Oh yeah what the people did to get around this is fucking awesome I do love that side of this story don't get me wrong.