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Originally Posted by Alexa Stott
Also, the document indicates that this individual was observed doing this multiple times and continuing throughout the match. If they were just doing some unauthorized (and incredibly harmful) troubleshooting, why didn't they stop after forcing a robot to lose connection the first time? Why did they take their phone out after explicitly being told not to? Because of those facts, I think it's hard to say that the intent was not malicious.
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As the report points out a not trivial amount of problems were actually on the robot. This would make it hard to see cause and effect while testing such an attack. You wouldn't know if the attack stopped the robot or the robot stopped for reasons you had nothing to do with. Just like the FTA and other FIRST folks wouldn't know if the robots were broken or someone was causing trouble.
Add to this the storm and the other distractions it's just a perfectly bad combination.