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Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them (www.404media.co)
submitted 11 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] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think you can go further. My 2017 A4 is still "normal."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm glad to hear that. Often I've driven rental cars and *last time I struggled to find the gear shifter which was replaced by buttons on the dash.

I've also seen just a video of a Tesla only new driver struggle to drive a ICE car because it had a gear shifter and didn't automatically brake. I'm feeling like a dinosaur now...