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#stopkillingtrains

The European Pirate Party is doing good work addressing this bullshit :)

cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/13723083

Original post by Patrick Breyer (MEP (member of the European Parliament) for the pirate party) on Mastodon: digitalcourage.social/…/112716177887148583

In reference to a case detailed in this talk at 37C3: …ccc.de/…/37c3-12142-breaking_drm_in_polish_train…

lud ,

This has nothing to do with piracy.

ShepherdPie ,

I think it may tangentially as you could argue hacking into the software to modify and bypass software locks is akin to piracy.

uis ,

Fuck, I forgot to post it on piracy community. I posted it only in RtR one.

monstoor ,

Reported on The Register, too: theregister.com/…/polish_trains_geofenced_allegat…

PhobosAnomaly ,

Absolutely love that CCC talk, very interesting and quite entertaining too.

Cheeky bastards.

bier ,

youtu.be/XrlrbfGZo2k that talk was on of the funniest that year

Emerald ,

grabs piped bot and pushes them down

Here’s an alternative CCC link:

…ccc.de/…/37c3-12142-breaking_drm_in_polish_train…

domi ,
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Did anything ever come from this? I imagine that any of the railway companies affected would want to sue?

Not much possibility for argumenting about security reasons either when you literally have the GPS coordinates of your competitors in your code.

uis , (edited )
  1. Criminal investigation by Polish goverment
  2. Copyright lawsuit by train manufacturer against researchers
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