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Comment by pocksuppet

4 days ago

Trains made by Newag were programmed to brick themselves if they detected a non-Newag workshop was repairing them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530885

And that was correctly perceived to be illegal by antitrust regulators.

btw the best part of this story is that the train company googled "best Polish hackers", found a group who won a CTF, and this actually worked out for them