The European Pirate Party is doing good work addressing this bullshit :)
cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/13723083
Original post by Patrick Breyer (MEP (member of the European Parliament) for the pirate party) on Mastodon: https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/112716177887148583
In reference to a case detailed in this talk at 37C3: https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12142-breaking_drm_in_polish_trains
Absolutely love that CCC talk, very interesting and quite entertaining too.
Cheeky bastards.
https://youtu.be/XrlrbfGZo2k that talk was on of the funniest that year
*grabs piped bot and pushes them down*
Here's an alternative CCC link:
https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12142-breaking_drm_in_polish_trains
Did anything ever come from this? I imagine that any of the railway companies affected would want to sue?
Not much possibility for argumenting about security reasons either when you literally have the GPS coordinates of your competitors in your code.