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Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains – 37c3 presentation
We've all been there: the trains you're servicing for a customer suddenly brick themselves and the manufacturer claims that's because you...
They had a talk space yesterday night at Chaos Communication Congress. These three guys are modern heroes.
Follow up to https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/7760263
--- cross-posted from: https://derp.foo/post/544012
> There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
McDonald's Ice Cream Machines, Break Often, Intentionally A Pain to Diagnose, and Impossible to Fix
This summer, we’re on a mission to figure out why McDonald’s ice cream machines are always broken—by tearing one apart and fixing outdated copyright law.
iFixit tears down a Taylor ice cream machine and finds that it overheats often, takes hours to restart, and these issues are impossible to fix because of locked down software and terrible error messages. No wonder, since Taylor makes 25% of its money charging $315 per 15 minutes for their exclusive repairs.