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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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[-] albert180@feddit.de 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well I guess in the next tender they will add a paragraph for "No Killswitches allowed"

[-] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

And I hope the company will be locked out of tenders for the next 50 years. Minimum.

[-] Marsupial@quokk.au 11 points 1 year ago

And the owners/ceo/board/everyone involved to be arrested.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

And then we all wake up and it's 2007 again

[-] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

And have that tender blacklist be EU wide.

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