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Re: Responsible disclosure practices

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Originally Posted by SoftwareBug2.0 View Post
Half of a second is an eternity in this game. Even a quarter second would be a ridiculously large advantage.
Given the few amount of robots that even *move* in autonomous mode this year, I think if you're playing at a level where that amount of time matters, it would be a waste of time to cheat here.

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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?
I wouldn't send the packets from the driver station, I'd send them from the robot itself over localhost using a raw socket to spoof the source -- remember, no authentication/encryption is done anywhere. Worst case scenario, you have to make a kernel driver to do it, but I doubt that's necessary. All of this is easier and "safer" than messing with the firmware which we don't have the source for, and would be really easy to hide.
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