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Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find (arstechnica.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find::The train manufacturer accused the hackers of slander.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Planned obsolescence on steroids.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Steroids? They've done a complete speedrun lol

Imagine if it was a more mundane issue, let's say the air line in a carriage has blown out and none of the doors work under their own power. Roll the train into the third party workshop to carry out the fix... a copyright notice flags up on the panel screen and now you've got a long 20 ton dead brick in your workshop

Imagine this happened with cars, that would be outrageous man