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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If anybody wants to know more, they can watch it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8NqBXT6Kos

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ah, Louis Rossmann, a real-life superhero. He did some great work in his career.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Why are you referring to him in the past tense? AFAIK he and his cat are still ranting about tech rights on the daily.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Don't forget his friend Foxy

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

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