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Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them (www.404media.co)
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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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[–] obinice@lemmy.world 75 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Let us know what country you're in, so the next time you're invaded and genocided we'll remember it's barely as important as the weather forecast.

[–] Starglasses@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I think the idea is that people check the weather So they will actually see it. Like, I never read the sports section, but if there was a tidbit on the weather page I might click it.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That's generous but their user history makes it pretty obvious that they're mad about aid being sent at all when it could go to paying off their student loan debt instead.

[–] force@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

as if those are mutually exclusive things to have lol

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why not both?

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 years ago

Ask them, I think it's stupid as shit to frame them as mutually exclusive choices.

[–] Wes_Dev@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

My reading of that was "climate change will kill most of our species in the long term if we don't take it seriously, so that's also something very important to track and belongs on the same page as wars.".