In one of the coolest and more outrageous repair stories in quite some time, three white-hat hackers helped a regional rail company in southwest Poland unbrick a train that had been artificially rendered inoperable by the train’s manufacturer after an independent maintenance company worked on it. The train’s manufacturer is now threatening to sue the hackers who were hired by the independent repair company to fix it.
After breaking trains simply because an independent repair shop had worked on them, NEWAG is now demanding that trains fixed by hackers be removed from service.
“You wouldn’t pirate a train”
Is this a robbery?
No! It’s a science experiment… computer science!
The robbery is what the train manufacturer did.
Then the hackers did a train robbery on the train robbery
Their leader, ‘Dutch’, had a good plan.
He also screamed at the screen “ONE! MORE! SCORE!”
“Train pirate” has got to be one of the steampunkiest job titles I’ve ever heard.