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Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware hacking (badcyber.com)

submitted 11 months ago by perestroika@slrpnk.net to c/fixing@slrpnk.net

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This article is about fixing, but with a twist - it's about fixing trains that their manufacturer sabotaged. :D

In Poland, it took the hacker crew "Dragon Sector" months of work to find a software "time bomb" that was sabotaging "Impuls" trains manufactured by Newag, once their maintenance was handed over to another company.

Let this be a reminder to everyone about closed source technology and critical infrastructure.

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[–] JacobCoffinWrites@slrpnk.net 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This is great - I love that they open sourced the fix to help train operators in other cities.