Hacking Coke Machines

Nov 21, 2004 21:50

Coke vending machines are everywhere. They're getting more and more like regular computers with LEDs that show little "ICE COLD" messages and whatnot. Well, there's a lot more to those little built-in computers than you may think. Included in the low-level operating system that these babies run on is an actual debug menu that gives you access to all sorts of machine information and possibly gives you free cokes in older machines.

- i-HACKED

This article on hacking Coke machines was an interesting read. We have these exact same Coke machines all over campus here so I think I'm going to have to try this out one of these days. I wonder what the legal ramifications of hacking a Coke machine are.
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