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"All-Access Connected" Stern Monthly Fee For Some Online Features

By SantaEatsCheese

2 years ago


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    #154 2 years ago

    Nobody is going to hack a pinball machine. There's no point to it. People can't even hack into games that are in their possession, let alone through the internet. There has to be some sort of money aspect before it would be a possibility, and there isn't. Our hobby just isn't that important. Everyone else is off doing hacks for the 1000's of video games out there. The most that would happen would be something on Stern's server end, but it wouldn't be on an individual machine level.

    Just think of it this way, Stern's had code to download on their website for 10+ years. At any time, someone could have hacked in and uploaded a bad update for a game. Never happened...because nobody cares. We can't even get complete code a lot of the time, let alone make the machine do something else weird, lol...the games own programmers don't want to work on it anymore, why would a bunch of hackers?

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    #199 2 years ago
    Quoted from Roostking:

    And that was exactly why I downvoted your initial response. Glad you figured it out. Potential to brick thousands of pins.. I doubt Stern is up on the latest and greatest security.

    I feel like none of you are embedded programmers. If you were, you'd realize that to do something like this even from the embedded side would take a massive amount of work, let alone the first part which is getting into Stern in the first place. This isn't "download some program from the internet and hose your pinball machine", this is months and months of work with logic analyzers, debuggers, etc to even get started. This hacking into a pinball machine remotely and making it do all kinds of bad stuff is nonsense, it's taken 25 years for people to try and fix simple bugs in older games, and we think someone is going to take the time to reprogram an entire machine to do bad things for no financial gain?

    Can it be done? I'm sure with enough time and resources, yes, just like everything else that's far out theoretical. But like those other things (like someone hacking all xboxes at the same time, or ps5's, or switches, etc) it's just not going to happen.

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