Yeah.. I've just realized that while it's entertaining to watch how it unfolds or predict what can happen next, it's also sad, because pretty much everybody in the rail industry loses..
One of my business partners works for PKP it's very annoying to see this all unfold and in this particular way. Poland has so much potential, these idiots are ruining Polands image in ways that really matter.
But then again, as a Dutch person I have enough issues locally that I can't even complain...
Poland has a very strong technology and mathematics tradition that goes back decades. It's one of the reasons Poland has some strong feelings about their role in the breaking of the Enigma, for the longest time that was played down.
Working in security on the operating side (albeit not in Poland):
No, pretty much just the manufacturer loses. Short term the operator loses, but I'm sure that the courts will award damages.
For me, this incident is a welcome argument with which I can tighten the screws on manufacturers in the next round of train buying (at minimum, they will agree to heavy contractual fines for anything like this; at best I get full source code for every train).
For too long the only priority in OT was safety (fine in the 80ies, but the second you integrate an IP stack that posture doesn't work anymore). This has been changing in the industry thanks to EU-regulation; this incident will accelerate the change.
