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Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them (www.404media.co)
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[–] 15 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

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.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 2 years 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

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