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Gravityloss
9 days ago
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Railway (PaaS) global outage
Indeed! Remote bricking of trains is perhaps a thing:
https://www.thedrive.com/news/hackers-beat-anti-repair-softw...
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esseph
9 days ago
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It's also mandated by Congress in the US, it's called PTC. (Remote control)
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nhubbard
9 days ago
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This wasn't PTC. It was repair lockouts instituted by the manufacturer of the trains based on a GPS geofencing beacon.
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esseph
9 days ago
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Sure! I'm just pointing out that technically you can stop the trains remotely - by design.
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