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by NotSammyHagar 2355 days ago
allowing easy update over usb is its own thread model, lessened with only allowing signed updates. Like almost everything, it's likely these parking meters have terrible security design. the parking meter I use commonly is incredibly slow, every button push takes 1/2 a second to update the small lcd ui, I really wonder what it can be doing to be so slow. It's probably using multiple levels of interpolation to run a js program or something.