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submitted 1 year ago by btp@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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[-] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 171 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The person is doing a talk about it in hamburg, germany (37c3) next week. Its on my to watch list because that sounds hella interresting.

Edit : 37c3 list of talks : https://halfnarp.events.ccc.de/#dec115da17562cebafa9ba7a150a4fc607c25c880c03593dcc8da6087c9441a4

[-] khannie@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

That actually does sound hella interesting. I'm saving your comment to try to remember but actually look it up in about two years when I scroll back though my saved posts.

[-] YoorWeb@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago
[-] Holyginz@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Went to subscribe to it until I remembered i don't speak German lol

[-] example@reddthat.com 18 points 1 year ago

nearly all talks are either in English or have English translations. not sure if they're available on YouTube but you should be able to find everything on https://media.ccc.de

[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Time to learn!

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[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 7 points 1 year ago

I'm saving your comment to try to remember their comment to try to remember to watch that.

[-] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Consider this a reminder :p

[-] foyrkopp@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

C3 talks are available online for quite some time after the actual event, so you might still be able to watch it then.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Where "quite some time" is "indefinite". Proper archives go back to 2002, 19c3.

Takes some time for stuff to show up in the archives though as start+end get cut manually, while the congress is running there's always an archive of raw steam dumps maybe that's the one you mean.

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Does Lemmy not have a "remind me" bot yet?

[-] pwalker@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 year ago

It's 37c3, but thx for the hint. The talk is called Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains by Redford, q3k, MrTick

I will try to watch it on stage, unfortunately still no final schedule available

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

Fixed the edition number. I always forget what number we are at haha. I will not be on site, but i saved it in my planner : https://halfnarp.events.ccc.de/#dec115da17562cebafa9ba7a150a4fc607c25c880c03593dcc8da6087c9441a4

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

The numbering got a bit messed up as there weren't chaos covid congresses.

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