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The European Pirate Party is doing good work addressing this bullshit :)

cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/13723083

Original post by Patrick Breyer (MEP (member of the European Parliament) for the pirate party) on Mastodon: https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/112716177887148583

In reference to a case detailed in this talk at 37C3: https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12142-breaking_drm_in_polish_trains

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[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Did anything ever come from this? I imagine that any of the railway companies affected would want to sue?

Not much possibility for argumenting about security reasons either when you literally have the GPS coordinates of your competitors in your code.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)
  1. Criminal investigation by Polish goverment
  2. Copyright lawsuit by train manufacturer against researchers