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Polish Hackers that repaired DRM trains threatened by train company
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Oh, Lower Silesia. Some of my relatives were from that area. Wouldn't be surprised if one of the hackers was my Nth removed cousin.
Watch the weasel word there. If its software leads to failures to its trains, NEWAG can always claim that it was not intentional, and that it was not lying. Including this "workshop detection". Or the bloody telemetry unit; together they did introduce a failure to the trains, regardless of "muh intenshun".
"Fear, uncertainty, doubt" comes to my mind.
In addition to right to repair laws, I feel like governments are utterly unprepared when it comes to businesses trying to bully the government's population into submission. This should be addressed, and the legal apparatus being misused by those businesses should be checked and fixed.