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14-Year-Old Turns Tram System Into Personal Train Set

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the no-volume-control-on-this-tv dept.

F-3582 writes "By modifying a TV remote a 14-year-old boy from Lodz, Poland, managed to gain control over the junctions of the tracks. According to The Register the boy had 'trespassed in tram depots to gather information needed to build the device. [...] Transport command and control systems are commonly designed by engineers with little exposure or knowledge about security using commodity electronics and a little native wit.' Four trams derailed in the process injuring a number of passengers. The boy is now looking at 'charges at a special juvenile court of endangering public safety.'"

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  1. Law enforcement differences by KaiserSoze · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good thing he wasn't in the United States, where he'd be charged with terrorism, waterboarded, sodomized with a broom handle and thrown in Guantanamo Bay forever. The Department of Homeland Security would then increase the Train Flight Security Awareness Threat to Indigo, and the attorney general would trumpet the great work that the US Government is doing to prevent further Terrorist Train Derailments.

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  2. Video by Nutty_Irishman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Local authorities released this video capturing the culprits in their crime: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiAk5vqvn3A

  3. Re:Leave it to the Polish! by TheGratefulNet · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, Poland is so backwards.

    I know. in fact, they call RPN just "notation" !

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