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Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains [video] – 37c3 presentation (streaming.media.ccc.de)
submitted 1 year ago by kilgore_trout@feddit.it to c/technology@lemmy.world
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They had a talk space yesterday night at Chaos Communication Congress. These three guys are modern heroes.

cross-posted from: https://derp.foo/post/544012

There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.

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[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also found this from someone involved in the hack: https://social.hackerspace.pl/@q3k/111528162462505087

This bit is pretty interesting:

One version of the controller actually contained GPS coordinates to contain the behaviour to third party workshops.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, he explains not only this but also other lock mechanisms in the talk.

For example, one based on datetime. It's quite crazy.

[–] YoorWeb@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

International compressor failure day

:)

Thanks for the link, I was waiting for that talk.

[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is very dystopian, having to hack a product because they dared to not use the official company workshop.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It is frightening because a company overstepped what is the free will of a public agency in doing what they want with their own property. I know this is much more already a reality in the US, but imagine if monopolistic companies alone could dictate to countries how laws should and shouldn't be.

[–] zecg@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I seriously lol'd when he said "you might know me from such shitposts as getting Wayland to work on ipod nano"