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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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[–] BloodSlut@lemmy.world 291 points 11 months ago (2 children)

"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.world 157 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 14 points 11 months ago

Someone's gonna figure out a horror movie for this called The Refucker

[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't free - they were paid to hack it.

But yeah.

[–] pirat@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Could be free as in freedom, as opposed to free as in beer?

[–] Jessvj93@lemmy.world 57 points 11 months ago

"And how dare those hackers go through all the trouble of finding those (literal) GPS coordinates of train maintenance centers not in our system to circumvent us getting more money."