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by pocksuppet 13 days ago
Trains made by Newag were programmed to brick themselves if they detected a non-Newag workshop was repairing them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38638865

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38628635

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38567687

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530885

2 comments

And that was correctly perceived to be illegal by antitrust regulators.
btw the best part of this story is that the train company googled "best Polish hackers", found a group who won a CTF, and this actually worked out for them