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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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[-] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 34 points 10 months ago

I wonder if they'll be able to overclock those trains or install some mods.

[-] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago

The trains run DOOM.

[-] JillyB@beehaw.org 12 points 10 months ago

I'm now imagining rgb trains. Mechanical turn styles, high refresh rate info screens, giant AIO coolers.

[-] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 2 points 10 months ago

Plenty of modern rolling stock already has water cooled power electronics, oil-cooled transformers, and I'm sure there's RGB passenger information displays.

They also laugh at your little 120/140/200mm fans.

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

Okay, but now we need to upgrade those industrial fans to noctua

[-] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 1 points 10 months ago

Let me introduce you to ebm-pabst.

[-] i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago

Maybe they can put some of these in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmrQ-xm546o

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