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Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them

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.

simin ,

the world’s not one’s to fix, learn to protect yourself.

whoisearth ,
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No the current model everywhere is to pay a vendor. I’m sure someone can get KPMG or Deloitte to fix the world.

EdibleFriend ,
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I hate this fucking planet.

DuckOverload ,

I think this is pretty cool. Sure, capitalists are gonna capitalist, but here we have subversive moves in a positive direction.

EdibleFriend ,
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Oh yeah what the people did to get around this is fucking awesome I do love that side of this story don’t get me wrong.

Dio9sys ,

I like how, instead of recognizing that they got caught, now the train manufacturer is claiming this is some kind of dark PR strategy.

If it is, then please show the public that it’s a dark PR strategy by explaining the hidden unlock codes and the DRM code!

RememberTheApollo_ ,

If they required the trains to be serviced by manufacturer they should have written it into a mandatory service contract at time of sales.

btr_fan87 ,

Artificially bricked?! Who the hell keeps giving Viagra to trains? Evil bastards.

xytaruka ,

Sir Toppam Hat

ShitOnABrick ,
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Where did the independent repair shop and cracker smackers touch you on the doll NEWAG 14WE EMU

zockerr ,

Every time I read about this kerfuffle, I am astounded by the sheer stupidity of the manufacturer. Even if they may be technically in the right here(I don’t know, since the contracts they have with the operator aren’t public), they effectively shoot themselves in the foot with this PR Desaster. Especially the various national rail operators across Europe will think twice about buying NEWAG, since these operators usually have their own maintenance and repair centers, and expect to service their rolling stock there. And those national operators still make up the lion’s share of the European rail market.

DSTGU ,

This aint much of a problem. NEWAG operates almost exclusively on the internal market

maynarkh ,

I sure hope that they become a political talking point where the government loses votes if they contract with them again.

FangedWyvern42 ,
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Most ethical vehicle manufacturer:

(This is a joke)

KeenFlame ,

Spewing bs about how they can’t guarantee the safety and other outrageous shit pouring out their mouths as they provide clearly practiced lawyerspeak to squeeze money from public service into their owners pockets which will then be invested probably in war and killing children for profit.

But let’s discuss ethics and shit! Fuck faces need to be brought to moral justice for the evil they commit every day of their brainwashed miserable hateful lives where they pretend to not harm people because they don’t do it themselves but via money grabbing schemes. One day all of this shit will seem to be as stupid as hitting kids are these days

arc ,

Apparently there was some kind of gps geo fencing going on - that the software detected the train went into an uncertified repair yard and bricked the thing. So I assume the hackers just purged that info, or unset the flags that denoted the brick condition so as far as the train software was concerned it was operating normally.

It’s an interesting hack but there is a safety aspect to this too. A train is a complex machine that could go catastrophically wrong and kill a bunch of people. It’s not quite Boeing 737 levels of safety criticality but neither is it something that should be taken lightly with regards to service procedure or parts procurement. So the manufacturer were being dicks to brick the train. But the train operator using an unauthorised repairer who might not have access to, let alone follow the correct servicing procedures or parts is not good either.

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