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Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them (www.404media.co)
submitted 9 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] 28 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That's generous but their user history makes it pretty obvious that they're mad about aid being sent at all when it could go to paying off their student loan debt instead.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago

as if those are mutually exclusive things to have lol

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why not both?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

Ask them, I think it's stupid as shit to frame them as mutually exclusive choices.