Comment on Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find
LesserAbe@lemmy.world 1 year agoThis doesn’t have anything to do with fake parts. The Polish government bought trains. They have the right to get them serviced by whoever they want. And the original manufacturer intentionally and secretly sabotaged those efforts. Instead of worrying about a hypothetical problem, why not worry about a shown actual problem? That a product the government bought to benefit its citizens can be disabled even when nothing is broken?
tankplanker@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Its not hypothetical, its a widespread issue for aircraft: independent.co.uk/…/airline-scandal-fake-parts-sc…
and did you even read what I wrote?
LesserAbe@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I did. The article isn’t about planes.
tankplanker@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The article is about right to repair, third party parts, and systems designed to block both of them, which I applied to an existing problem that applies to planes for certain and almost certainly other forms of public transport. Even a shit idea can be repurposed to improving the common good.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
To be honest, while train safety is extremely important, aircraft safety is a whole ‘nother ballpark. Shit going very wrong on a train is bad, and may kill a lot of people. Shit going very wrong on a plane is catastrophic, and will almost certainly kill everyone on the plane.
Source: I have worked in aerospace