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madires:
The Polish company Newag (manufacturer of trains) had a great idea to maximize profit:
- add a kill-switch to the control system
- wait for trains stop working when serviced by a third party
- $$$

Brief intro from the 'hackers' investigating the issue: https://social.hackerspace.pl/@q3k/111528162462505087
And Louis Rossmann's response: https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/forget-about-sony-and-netflix,-there's:9

Haenk:
I find it "funny" that the manufacturer failed partly on the sabotage routine. :palm:

golden_labels:
Unfortunately the company responded with attacks, including legal threats, supposedly(1) filing criminal charges against the researchers, spreading news of everything being competitors’ conspiracy against them, and general PR-produced bullshit.

It seems there is formally no direct victims and potential future clients are “pragmatic”, so it’s likely Newag will also get away with it — not counting short instability in their shares price.

(1) They are the sole source of this information.

coppercone2:
must be nice to shake down a national resource

russia must love train delays with the whole war effort going on

golden_labels:

--- Quote from: coppercone2 on December 21, 2023, 11:19:10 pm ---must be nice to shake down a national resource
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What national resource? This is a private company, who caused distress to another private company, who serviced trains operated by yet another private company. The last one is owned by a local government, but not state government.


--- Quote from: coppercone2 on December 21, 2023, 11:19:10 pm ---russia must love train delays with the whole war effort going on

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How is Russia even involved? And what delays in what war effort? Did you mix up Poland and Ukraine? And even if: these are commute trains.

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