Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Last year, the Polish hacking group Dragon Sector was contacted by a public sector ...
Last year, the Polish hacking group Dragon Sector was contacted by a public sector train company whose Newag trains kept going out of service. The operator suspected that Newag had boobytrapped the trains to punish the train company for getting its maintenance from a third-party contractor. When Dragon Sector investigated, they discovered that Newag had indeed *riddled* the trains' firmware with boobytraps.
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