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Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains [video] – 37c3 presentation

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We've all been there: the trains you're servicing for a customer suddenly brick themselves and the manufacturer claims that's because you...

Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains

Follow up to https://kbin.social/m/technology@lemmy.ml/t/700738

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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1y ago

Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains [video] – 37c3 presentation

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Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains [video] – 37c3 presentation

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Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains [video] – 37c3 presentation

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Wow, so many good parts in this...
Side note: I do not do any coding professionally, just self taught stuff to impressive my business coworkers - but this was really well explained.
My favorites: Default username and password for accessing the debugger on the trains computer (that apparently can't be changed)
Hard coded geofenced coordinates that would disable a train if it was being serviced at a competitors location
Absolute favorite: the incorrectly programmed date lock that would only disable the train November & December on the 21st-30th
Hopefully the company is reprimanded for this - here in the US it would probably be a slap on the wrist and nothing else.
- This would be quite a bit more than a slap on the wrist in the US, the City of New York does all its own maintenance on all its buses, railroad and subway trains.
  Manufacturer interference would result in some of the most aggressive city lawyers grinding the manufacturer's headquarters into dust, legislatively.
  I can't believe it'd be different at any other jurisdiction within the US.
  
  Hmm, that's good / reassuring - hopefully we don't have to find out!
  
  The dice have just started rolling. Shit is possibly going to hit the fan real hard for Newag next year.
  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Was there and that was the best talk of the day
- Was it really at 23:00 as scheduled?
  
  Yes. I stayed up late to watch the stream haha

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