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Is no one suing the manufacturer for vandalizing the trains?
You can lead a horse to water...
Not that I want to tell the Polish how to do things (I don't), but a satisfying outcome would be one where they found out precisely who gave the order to program Newag trains like that and then jail them. Add to their jailtime for each train that is found running the software and force Newag to do free maintenance on those trains.
If Poland wants to show a hard stance on how to deal with people trying to fuck over the public to earn money that's as good as its gonna get. If Poland wants to tell everybody that fucking the polish public pays off even if there is overwhelming evidence that you did it — ok.
I just donated 133,7€ and will gladly do it again if further legal costs arise. Please consider also making a generous donation and post about it in this thread. What Newag is doing here is absolutely vile. They want to charge 20.000€ per train to “reactivate” them after they have been serviced at third party workshops. We must not let them win and set a precedent. I highly encourage everyone to watch the previous pr…
At 20k euros, would it not just be cheaper to hire some software people to jailbreak them? If companies that did this got jailbroken and blacklisted by the government, pretty much nobody would try this bullshit.
What happened to the old moral rule of "if you explain to your mom what you are doing and she is dismayed, you are doing things wrong"? Because what Newag is doing very clearly violates it.
That is one sure way to make people not donate to the cause. I want to support the people, but I don't want my money to go elsewhere, and there is no way of knowing how much has been raised to date or guarantees to get the funds back when the legal costs eventually get covered by Newag. The only guarantee stated is that they will definitely use money for something else. Not OK.
I just donated 133,7€ and will gladly do it again if further legal costs arise. Please consider also making a generous donation and post about it in this thread. What Newag is doing here is absolutely vile. They want to charge 20.000€ per train to “reactivate” them after they have been serviced at third party workshops. We must not let them win and set a precedent. I highly encourage everyone to watch the previous pr…
At 20k euros, would it not just be cheaper to hire some software people to jailbreak them? If companies that did this got jailbroken and blacklisted by the government, pretty much nobody would try this bullshit.
And getting sued by a train manifacturer is typically a asymmetrical battle for a private person. Consider watching the original talk (very entertaining and insightful, probably one of the best hacking related videos I watched in 2024), and if you like them toss them a tenner or so.
I just donated 133,7€ and will gladly do it again if further legal costs arise. Please consider also making a generous donation and post about it in this thread. What Newag is doing here is absolutely vile. They want to charge 20.000€ per train to “reactivate” them after they have been serviced at third party workshops. We must not let them win and set a precedent. I highly encourage everyone to watch the previous pr…
Looks like train manufacturers are taking a page out of the playbooks of many other companies today. The practice of manufacturers remotely disabling products after the time of purchase (for whatever reason) is becoming a scourge in many other product areas. The device's manufacturer should have no say about how a product is used once money is handed over in exchange for it. This really has to stop. Regulatory agenci…
Copyright is the root of the problem. More regulation could be a solution, sure, but is it really what we want?
I just donated 133,7€ and will gladly do it again if further legal costs arise. Please consider also making a generous donation and post about it in this thread. What Newag is doing here is absolutely vile. They want to charge 20.000€ per train to “reactivate” them after they have been serviced at third party workshops. We must not let them win and set a precedent. I highly encourage everyone to watch the previous pr…
According to the schedule [1], there's a presentation from that team titled "We've not been trained for this: life after the Newag DRM disclosure" that will start at 23:00 local time (in about 30 minutes at the time of this writing) on this livestream [2].
Edit: presentation's over and it was outstanding.
[1] https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/hub/en/event/we-ve-not-b...
> If more than the € 30,000 required to date is donated, if the legal costs are lower or if court costs are repaid, all payments received in excess will be used for the statutory purposes of the Chaos Computer Club e.V.. Please note that the CCC e.V. is not formally recognised as a non-profit organisation. That is one sure way to make people not donate to the cause. I want to support the people, but I don't want my m…