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.

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.

  • Bizarroland@kbin.social
    81·
    11 months ago

    Poland ought to ban that company from ever working or operating or selling any products inside of its country and any trains made by that company that are not currently owned by Poland should be prevented from traveling on the tracks that cross through Poland.

    • SpookyUnderwear@eviltoast.orgEnglish
      31·
      11 months ago

      This is the kind of government intervention I can get behind. This story is so outrageous, it’s hard to believe it’s true.

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
      91·
      11 months ago

      Maybe make it the entire executive and senior management, rather than the company.

    • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      I feel like train operators will have heard of this, and will not be accepting that company’s tenders

    • vinhill@feddit.deEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Realistically, that would be quite an overreaction and the corporation does have valuable knowledge and skill in creating trains. But how great it would be if this were to cause open source code to be a requirement…