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A student with a laptop and a radio stopped four high-speed trains. The crypto keys hadn’t been changed in 19 years.
TL;DR A 23-year-old hacked Taiwan’s high-speed rail with a laptop and cheap radios, exploiting crypto keys unchanged for 19 years. At 23:23 on 5 April, a 23-year-old university student in Taichung transmitted a falsified General Alarm signal into the Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation’s internal radio