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“Software installed by hackers”- how the Polish Press Agency lies about the Newag scandal

q3k.org/2024-06-11-pap-newag-e

Whatever update I was hoping to post about the Newag scandal wasn't this - but this sort of lie has to be corrected.

11 June at 16:05 | Open on social.hackerspace.pl
8 comments
mc.fly

@q3k So they say they have a security issue?

Did they report it? Was private data exfiltrated?

What impact does it have for the security and maybe more important safety of their trains when there's a vulnerability on the trains?

Did they include a professional security firm over the topic?

What changes does Newag do to fix issues like this?

11 June at 16:24 | Open on milliways.social
q3k :blobcatcoffee:

@mcfly If only the (polish) news cycle cared about 'trivial details' like these :)

11 June at 16:26 | Open on social.hackerspace.pl
mc.fly

@q3k maybe worth to make a press release on the topic?

So, you have a security vulnerability? Do you know what that actually means?

Are you sure you want to go with this excuse?

11 June at 16:30 | Open on milliways.social
q3k :blobcatcoffee:

@mcfly I've been cooking up a nice little post about all of this for a while now, and that's one of the issues I wanted to bring up, yes :). Guess I should get on with it.

11 June at 16:31 | Open on social.hackerspace.pl
Martin Schobert

@mcfly @q3k I remember your congress talk and software updates, which were likely not verified by train authorities. Wouldn't these better qualify for unauthorized changes? So one could call them malicious hackers, who implemented the geofencing. (But of course, the PAP is not referring to them and the PAP statement is misleading.)

11 June at 16:53 | Open on chaos.social
Leszek

@q3k Since you were named as the hackers in multiple articles related to Newag trains is this grounds for a libel lawsuit? *sips tea*

11 June at 16:55 | Open on chaos.social
Juliet Merida (she/they) 🚝🏳️‍⚧️🏹🎯

@q3k@social.hackerspace.pl "Software installed by hackers" as in ... the people who were hired by the owners of the trains to fix them and consider themselves "hackers" by trade, not by crime?

The right to repair the things we own is so fucking important. If you can't repair it, you don't own it. You're leasing it at best.

11 June at 16:55 | Open on merida.hair
Rens

@q3k well, if they have judged that Newag are hackers now, it might be true...

11 June at 18:19 | Open on zug.network
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