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

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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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[-] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 168 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The person is doing a talk about it in hamburg, germany (37c3) next week. Its on my to watch list because that sounds hella interresting.

Edit : 37c3 list of talks : https://halfnarp.events.ccc.de/#dec115da17562cebafa9ba7a150a4fc607c25c880c03593dcc8da6087c9441a4

[-] khannie@lemmy.world 38 points 11 months ago

That actually does sound hella interesting. I'm saving your comment to try to remember but actually look it up in about two years when I scroll back though my saved posts.

[-] YoorWeb@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

https://youtube.com/@mediacccde

[-] Holyginz@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Went to subscribe to it until I remembered i don't speak German lol

[-] example@reddthat.com 17 points 11 months ago

nearly all talks are either in English or have English translations. not sure if they're available on YouTube but you should be able to find everything on https://media.ccc.de

[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

Time to learn!

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[-] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

Same, same.

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Does Lemmy not have a "remind me" bot yet?

[-] foyrkopp@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

C3 talks are available online for quite some time after the actual event, so you might still be able to watch it then.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

Where "quite some time" is "indefinite". Proper archives go back to 2002, 19c3.

Takes some time for stuff to show up in the archives though as start+end get cut manually, while the congress is running there's always an archive of raw steam dumps maybe that's the one you mean.

[-] pwalker@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 11 months ago

It's 37c3, but thx for the hint. The talk is called Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains by Redford, q3k, MrTick

I will try to watch it on stage, unfortunately still no final schedule available

[-] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Fixed the edition number. I always forget what number we are at haha. I will not be on site, but i saved it in my planner : https://halfnarp.events.ccc.de/#dec115da17562cebafa9ba7a150a4fc607c25c880c03593dcc8da6087c9441a4

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

The numbering got a bit messed up as there weren't chaos covid congresses.

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