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These mechanical hacks are always fun to discover. Although, that poor soul waiting for the toilet, just to find that it was locked with nobody inside - that co
by LASR 3y ago
These mechanical hacks are always fun to discover. Although, that poor soul waiting for the toilet, just to find that it was locked with nobody inside - that could be you.
These things are harder to test. It’s not just software and state machines.
And then there are the truly dangerous mechanical “hacks”. Eg the radiology machine that incorrectly dosed radiation. Therac-25.
- rvnx 3y agoIt's more as if you say "ok if I put glue inside the keylock of someones car, then it will be very difficult to open it, see this is unsafe"
- matheusmoreira 3y agoIt's more like they created a defective system whose safety features can be overcome. Just like this disaster here: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/a-legal-and-moral-question-the-crash-of-turkish-airlines-flight-981-and-the-dc-10-cargo-door-saga-d22f0b9fa689 https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/a-legal-and-moral-questi... > require McDonnell Douglas to redesign the door locking system so that it would be "physically impossible to position the external locking handle and vent door to their normal locking positions unless the locking pins are fully engaged."
- mst 3y agoSeems like given all he did was wiggle a handle it could also potentially happen accidentally. The glue comparison would be more akin to him breaking out logic probes.