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Here's the live recording link for those who missed it and are too impatient to wait for the cleaned-up one: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/38c3/relive/233cb1d4-4833-538...

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The Luigi-related reference of the talk at 37:03 of the livestream, "Delay, Deflect, Derail" (referring to the response by the Newag train manufacturer representatives, including the president and vice-president of the company, at the parliamentary committee meetings) got a round of applause from the audience.

The "...Derail" portion of the slogan references Newag's handout shown a few seconds earlier in the presentation.

One of the last slides:

    Lessons learned?

        Lawsuits are temporary, glory is forever.

        Go public.

Thank you! I have to say that my favorite in their latest update is the 60 day counter can be reset after closing the cabin door and hitting the SOS in the toilet. Now I want interview with the engineers sharing these product requirements...

... so a version of the train unlock logic looks at door status and WC emergency button?

You do NOT fuck with the safety system.

Sure, it's not the mission critical safety system and you're only reading it, so what's the harm? Well, one of these days someone doing that is going to typo == into a =, or whatever the PLC version of one-character oopsie is.

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