Quoted from chickenscratch:Now pondering on this further. My actual real concern is so, and I don't know if it's possible as I don't know Stern's power and PCB control system or API. But... assuming those are accessible in some way, I'd be much-much more worried about Stern's server being taken over, bad code thrown down that throws up wonky-high voltages to the node controllers and fries them all.
I would hope there'd be something in hardware which would prevent that Of course some malware technically could reprogram node boards, but fry them? I would very much hope not.