Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find::The train manufacturer accused the hackers of slander.
Planned obsolescence on steroids.
With the fake parts scandal for airplanes I wonder if this should be mandatory for parts that impact public safety for public transport like trains, buses, planes and so on.
Dont get me wrong, I want a full right to repair enshrined in law and using a system like this just to prevent it is clearly wrong, but if it could be adapted to allow for critical parts to be made under license by third parties and helped prevent fake parts then may be a small amount of good can come from this shitty practice.
This 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?
Its not hypothetical, its a widespread issue for aircraft: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/airline-scandal-fake-parts-scandal-b2459534.html
and did you even read what I wrote?
Dont get me wrong, I want a full right to repair enshrined in law and using a system like this just to prevent it is clearly wrong,
I did. The article isn’t about planes.
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.
