Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains
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We've all been there: the trains you're servicing for a customer suddenly brick themselves and the manufacturer claims that's because you...
    • Kilgore Trout@feddit.itOPEnglish
      24·
      2 years ago

      Yes, he explains not only this but also other lock mechanisms in the talk.

      For example, one based on datetime. It’s quite crazy.

      • YoorWeb@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        International compressor failure day

        :)

        Thanks for the link, I was waiting for that talk.

  • yamanii@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    2 years ago

    This is very dystopian, having to hack a product because they dared to not use the official company workshop.

    • Kilgore Trout@feddit.itOPEnglish
      12·
      2 years ago

      It is frightening because a company overstepped what is the free will of a public agency in doing what they want with their own property. I know this is much more already a reality in the US, but imagine if monopolistic companies alone could dictate to countries how laws should and shouldn’t be.

    • KeenFlame@feddit.nuEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      Prison

      Fines mean only to normalise and integrate this behaviours

      Fines is a cost of business

      Fuck fines

    • Kilgore Trout@feddit.itOPEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      More than a fine, I would hope that whoever mandated such locks to be installed is arrested. I am sure some criminal charges can be found.

    • Kilgore Trout@feddit.itOPEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      With the link you included, do you mean to say that your comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0? I have never seen anyone apply this to forum comments

      • Kbobabob@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I have never seen anyone apply this to forum comments

        Why would you? It’s completely unenforceable in an anonymous forum. Maybe it’s just for “news” outlets?

  • zecg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    I seriously lol’d when he said “you might know me from such shitposts as getting Wayland to work on ipod nano”