Scott Murray :neurodiversity:<p>Sure, they unbricked a train 😮 but the truly surprising part of this story is that Google returned a useful result 😂</p><p>> “This is quite a peculiar part of the story—when SPS was unable to start the trains and almost gave up on their servicing, someone from the workshop typed "polscy hakerzy" (‘Polish hackers’) into Google,” the team from Dragon Sector, made up of Jakub Stępniewicz, Sergiusz Bazański, and Michał Kowalczyk, told me in an email. “Dragon Sector popped up and soon after we received an email asking for help.”</p><p><a href="https://www.404media.co/polish-hackers-repaired-trains-the-manufacturer-artificially-bricked-now-the-train-company-is-threatening-them/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">404media.co/polish-hackers-rep</span><span class="invisible">aired-trains-the-manufacturer-artificially-bricked-now-the-train-company-is-threatening-them/</span></a></p><p>Story by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@jasonkoebler" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jasonkoebler</span></a></span> from Dec. 2023 (I’m just seeing it now) featuring <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.hackerspace.pl/@q3k" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>q3k</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@redford" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>redford</span></a></span>, & <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@mrtick" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mrtick</span></a></span>.</p><p>Original toot: <a href="https://social.hackerspace.pl/@q3k/111528162462505087" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">social.hackerspace.pl/@q3k/111</span><span class="invisible">528162462505087</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/trains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trains</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/hacking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hacking</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/DRM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DRM</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a></p>