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Re: Responsible disclosure practices

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Originally Posted by virtuald View Post
The only thing that I can think of would be enabling yourself prematurely, or keeping yourself enabled after the match is over. However, either of these would be pretty easy for someone to spot if you gave yourself more than half a second. And, as I pointed out above, you don't need to modify firmware (and it's much less risky!) to accomplish either of these.
Half of a second is an eternity in this game. Even a quarter second would be a ridiculously large advantage.

I'm not sure why messing with the driver station would be easier. Wouldn't the team who wanted to do this then have to conceal the modified communication to the robot?