After breaking trains simply because an independent repair shop had worked on them, NEWAG is now demanding that trains fixed by hackers be removed from service.
  • Chaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    11 months ago

    Just to be clear, the company is sueing for defemation, in which the hackors claims could have damaged their image. Either way if the hackers are correct they will be able to prove this in court no problem. This would really be bad for the company, so as far as I’m aware they have only threatened this for the media and are not going through with it.

    • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      11 months ago

      Remember that this isn’t America. The legal definition of defamation is probably different. In some jurisdictions, even true statements can constitute defamation.

      • skillissuerOPEnglish
        10·
        11 months ago

        IANAL, however here you have such a thing: Defamation doesn’t have to be considered a crime if it’s a public statement of a fact that either concerns public official or is expressed in defense of a legitimate interest (this one here would be right to repair, right to fair competition, strategic interests of the state and some others)

        this is basically translation of a snippet from some lawyer’s blog, and i’m not fluent in legalese