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It’s worse. They are saying that the EU copyright law, as written, only allows decompiling/reverse engineering to “fix bugs”. A bug fix would involve a software patch of some sorts. But the security researchers did not have time to write a patch yet, what they did is tell the customer “Yep, it’s fucked. Your vendor put in a killswitch to make the trains brick themselves.” So that does tell them where the problem is, but it is not a bona fide bug fix from the Bugfix region of France, and therefore illegal.

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boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Ah so it’s just sparkling engineering

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dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

But the security researchers did not have time to write a patch yet

This is not true. They never intended, and said would never try to make any modifications to the train software, because it would be very illegal, you can’t make modifications to the trains without the train having to go through recertification again and they have no credentials to be making any modifications to trains.

They only analysed a copy of the software, and found secret undocumented unlock codes that could just be typed in at the cabin without having to modify anything.

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