Cory Doctorow

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What Now? with Trevor Noah · Cory Doctorow: You Bought it, They Break It · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

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There is a law like this in Poland.

It comes through the European Copyright Directive, Article VI.

And there was a Polish medical technician who used to work for Medtronic, who was making his own ventilator, illegal ventilator unlockers, and anonymously shipping them to hospitals.

Like he would find people online complaining about this, and he'd be like, give me your address, I'll send you the thing.

And because it was the lockdown, he just had whatever he had for enclosures.

So they would get like a guitar pedal,

with like a USB port and you plug it into your ventilator and it had like a little Raspberry Pi.

Like clock radios, bedside lamps, like literally whatever this guy had in his place in Poland during the lockdown, but he risked felony prosecution for this.

And there's so much of this in Poland.

Poland is like a weird epicenter for this.

So there's a Polish train company called NUVOG.

And companies that bought NUVOG trains would find that when they took them to a third party depot for repair, they would just stop working.

And they would like brick themselves and you'd have to call up NUVOG and NUVOG would go, oh, we'll do some remote diagnostics.

It's 20,000 euros.

Okay, we fixed it.

Or sometimes if you just park them for a long time, they do this.

Or sometimes they're pieces of track where if they ran over, it would do it.

So they hired an independent team of security researchers called Dragon Sector who reverse engineered the firmware on this train.

And the manufacturer, Nuvog, the way that they were winning all these train bid contracts is they sold the trains really cheap and then they charged up the ass for repair and maintenance.

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