[jedbrooke]

Oof, off topic but the trains were out of service here for my commute last night so I though from the headline this meant that somehow all trains everywhere just stopped working. Glad to see it’s just some Saas product that’s down

[Gravityloss]

Indeed! Remote bricking of trains is perhaps a thing: https://www.thedrive.com/news/hackers-beat-anti-repair-softw...

[esseph]

It's also mandated by Congress in the US, it's called PTC. (Remote control)

[nhubbard]

This wasn't PTC. It was repair lockouts instituted by the manufacturer of the trains based on a GPS geofencing beacon.

[esseph]

Sure! I'm just pointing out that technically you can stop the trains remotely - by design.

[jasoncartwright]

PaaS