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Polish Trains were equipped with automatic killswitch by manufacturer Newag (social.hackerspace.pl)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by redd@discuss.tchncs.de to c/europe@feddit.de
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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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[-] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 198 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 146 points 1 year ago

I hope messing with critical public infrastructure carries criminal not civil penalties, with people going to jail.

[-] Steve@startrek.website 24 points 1 year ago

Idk about Poland but in america a corporation is a person yet it cant be put in jail so only civil penalties are possible and the employees are mostly immune

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 year ago

Corporations are people in the legal sense everywhere (i.e. they are subjects of the law with rights and duties). The novelty in the US is that the archaic constitution allowed the US Supreme Court to be creative in assigning rights that every other country assigns only to natural persons to legal persons. In the case of Poland, for example, the constitution explicitly mentions legal persons when rights are supposed to apply to corporations too.

[-] CJOtheReal@ani.social 6 points 1 year ago

You can't put a company in jail but definitely the asshole that gave the order to do that...

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago

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

[-] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

public engagement

Yeah, how could they communicate with the public! Also the endangerment is pretty bad too.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Lol dammit

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