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A polish hacker found out why trains did stop working. The manufacterer implemented a hidden electronic switch, which automatically activated after trains were serviced by a different company.
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the PLC code actually contained logic that would lock up the train with bogus error codes after some date
I hope they sue the manufacturer.
Manufacture should be charged with public engagement or similar.
An unexpected dead train on a track, emitting bogus codes that possibly confuse rail systems (thus resulting in other trains not being properly warned) could result in a lot of harm. Managers and executives found to be responsible for the team that implemented it should be hit hardest
public engagement
Yeah, how could they communicate with the public! Also the endangerment is pretty bad too.
Lol dammit
Didn’t know John Deere made trains
Can we now finally say that drm sucks and any/all attempts to override it are reasonable because it’s broken by design?
Poland finally famous for something new ❤️
Oh yeah, absolutely nothing to do with trains the last time.
Well, I beg to differ
Sounds so legal that I’m sure its a plotpoint in a The Boys episode
This is Polska. Law is fluid here.
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Well I guess in the next tender they will add a paragraph for “No Killswitches allowed”
And I hope the company will be locked out of tenders for the next 50 years. Minimum.
And have that tender blacklist be EU wide.
Newag S.A. [pronounced: nevag] is a Polish company, based in Nowy Sącz, specialising in the production, maintenance, and modernisation of railway rolling stock. The company’s products include the 14WE, 19WE, 35WE types electric multiple units; it has also developed the Nevelo tram.[2]
Somehow this is the worst bit – a Polish company fucks the Polish state railway operator because of greed. If they’d done this in another country, there might have been some international repercussions etc. but they opted to burn their name in their own home country. This being found by random hackers is actually the best way for Newag for this affair to become public. This could have been so much worse.
Yup instead of the “I guess that third party repair really fucked up huh”
These guys are getting super [brazen]. Is this contract with the Polish state? or private?
Polish Regional governments if I understood it correctly
Sounds like they need use that big dick energy to set these clowns straight.
I get they think they can punk peasants… but punking the government now?
It’s even smarter to piss your only big customer, namely the polish government off. Something about biting the hand that feeds you
every province has their own railway operator, ultimately it’s all paid from state budget
BMW and Mercedes: “write that down!!”
I hope they develop a hidden switch to deactivate Newag.
Commander Adama was 162,000 years ahead of his time
Is that guy in the thumbnail trying to tell that train which way to go?
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American, right?
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Yeah, our miserable standard of living 🤣
Yeah, all that universal healthcare, parental leave, universal college, vacation time, etc., etc. is just the worst. Such lousy standard of living.
Not to mention the lack of school shootings. Who wants that?
A nation is civilised not when many poor people can afford cars, but when rich people gladly and readily use public transport.
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