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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Ah, Louis Rossmann, a real-life superhero. He did some great work in his career.
Why are you referring to him in the past tense? AFAIK he and his cat are still ranting about tech rights on the daily.
Don’t forget his friend Foxy