Depends on country's laws and contracts between parties. If the contract does not mandate service by the manufacturer, only suggests it, this sounds illegal. Not because of hacking, because of not documenting behavior and disturbing state entity hence the people.
Oh, yes. I agree that this sounds like actual fraud if it is undocumented. I disagree that disabling the machines would count as "hacking."
I am cynical about the latter because I personally would like this sort of malicious shit to qualify as hacking. I'd also like the telemetry and recording in all modern cars to be considered hacking.
If the contract mandated it, then the manufacturer could simply have filed a lawsuit. The fact that they didn't and did something in secret instead shows otherwise.
Only, if you can provide a proof for the train not being a printer or that it cant be used as such. /s
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Depends on country's laws and contracts between parties. If the contract does not mandate service by the manufacturer, only suggests it, this sounds illegal. Not because of hacking, because of not documenting behavior and disturbing state entity hence the people.
Oh, yes. I agree that this sounds like actual fraud if it is undocumented. I disagree that disabling the machines would count as "hacking."
I am cynical about the latter because I personally would like this sort of malicious shit to qualify as hacking. I'd also like the telemetry and recording in all modern cars to be considered hacking.
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If the contract mandated it, then the manufacturer could simply have filed a lawsuit. The fact that they didn't and did something in secret instead shows otherwise.