Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware hacking
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Re: Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware hacking
#2A train manufactured by a Polish company suddenly broke down during maintenance. The experts were helpless – the train was fine, it just wouldn’t run. In a desperate last gasp, the Dragon Sector team was called in to help, and its members found wonders the train engineers had never dreamed of.
Re: Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware hacking
#3See also the discussion/comments of the previous post of a related article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530885
Re: Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware hacking
#4But was this sabotage by an insider at the manufacturer, or something deliberate by the manufacturer?
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Nixon never went to jail.
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#7But was this sabotage by an insider at the manufacturer, or something deliberate by the manufacturer?
If the manufacturer did it, doesn't it still fit the definition? It's something like "deliberately causing something to fail", regardless of who does it.
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Nixon never went to jail.
And perps WERE arrested and put in jail for the Benghazi attack.[0]
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#9Dieselgate isn't a good comparison because in Dieselgate the equipment functioned normally from the user's point of view.
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The programmer appears to be programmed.