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Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them (www.404media.co)
submitted 11 months ago by skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 11 months ago

just to be clear: trains run on original, unmodified firmware, they just reverse engineered it and made a tool that allows for unlocking them just like it would be by manufacturer