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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 btp@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] sanqueue@lemmy.world 64 points 11 months ago (4 children)

This is good. Someone did that for printers too

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 41 points 11 months ago (3 children)

And American Weight (?) digital scales. The ones that brick themselves after 2,000 uses because how dare you only pay once.

[–] jucelc@lemmy.wtf 31 points 11 months ago

Lol. Always suspected there was a scam there, but every time I bring it up in a conversation - people just call me a conspiracy theorist.

This goes for pretty much everything though. Planned obsolescence is real, but people think it's just the natural way of things.

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