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1y ago

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

streaming.media.ccc.de Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains

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

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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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.
- Yes, he explains not only this but also other lock mechanisms in the talk.
  For example, one based on datetime. It's quite crazy.
  
  International compressor failure day
  :)
  Thanks for the link, I was waiting for that talk.

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

- Prison
  Fines mean only to normalise and integrate this behaviours
  Fines is a cost of business
  Fuck fines
- More than a fine, I would hope that whoever mandated such locks to be installed is arrested. I am sure some criminal charges can be found.
- With the link you included, do you mean to say that your comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0? I have never seen anyone apply this to forum comments
  
  I have never seen anyone apply this to forum comments
  Why would you? It's completely unenforceable in an anonymous forum. Maybe it's just for "news" outlets?

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

- What did you watch?

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