Polish teen derails tram after hacking train network (2008)

Re:Polish teen derails tram after hacking train network (2008) by TriinT on Sunday July 12, 2009 @11:36PM (#701036)

A photo: http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/4/4819/z4819154Z.jpg

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Re:Polish teen derails tram after hacking train network (2008) by slackenerny on Sunday July 12, 2009 @11:59PM (#701062)

And of his kit: http://www.dziennik.pl/files/archive/00042/2_1415_tramwaj_1_...

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Re:Polish teen derails tram after hacking train network (2008) by jacquesm on Monday July 13, 2009 @06:39AM (#701439)

and the slashdot story when it broke:

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/11/1719222

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Re:Polish teen derails tram after hacking train network (2008) by zackattack on Monday July 13, 2009 @12:52AM (#701112)

How on earth could that have possibly worked?

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Re:Polish teen derails tram after hacking train network (2008) by imajes on Monday July 13, 2009 @01:36AM (#701153)

so i'm going to suggest that in cities, alot of traffic and transit systems are just gsm boxes that send/receive commands. I've seen a traffic box opened up and asked the engineer how it all worked. He pointed to the (essentially) cell phone type device that sent stuff back to HQ.

I don't imagine that'd be hard to hack.

Even easier (given his hacking of a remote control) is if these points were controlled by RF signals sent by the train as they approached. "hey, it's me, open up so i can pass" type signals. This would be more shocking because it implies a level of automation that i'm not sure many would be comfortable with in such a system.

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