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We've not been trained for this: life after the Newag DRM disclosure [video]


You've probably already heard the story: we got contracted to analyze a bunch of trains breaking down after being serviced by independent...

Saal 1Hardware & Making Playlists:'38c3' videos starting here/ audio You've probably already heard the story: we got contracted to analyze a bunch of trains breaking down after being serviced by independent workshops. We reverse engineered them and found code which simulated failures when they detected servicing attempts. We’ll talk about: - Three parliamentary workgroup sessions with dirty bathroom photos on Newag’s offtopic slides, train operators revealing that they paid Newag more than 20k EUR for unlocking a single train, which Newag was able to unlock in 10 minutes, and at the same time saying that they don’t know anything about the locks.

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