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37C3 - Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains
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A 37C3 talk on how a series of Polish electric trains stopped working after servicing by an independent company. The speakers explain how train control systems work and how they reverse-engineered the software lockouts.
HN cites it as the key account of train DRM being broken, in threads on right to repair, reverse engineering and vendor lockouts.
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