Driver station coding and other

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Originally Posted by Thomas Clark

I never tried connecting to the wireless network while at the competition, but software on the robot or driver station, which are already on the network, could access other robots' files. This would mean it would have to be someone in the competition doing it, but that's still a vulnerability.

The FTP is handled behind the scenes by the IDE, isn't it? I suppose changing it to SSH and adding a password would be easy and require minimal user interaction, since the IDE can save the password just like a web browser would for your email.

The field control setup uses separate VPN for each team so being on "the network" does not give you access to other team's robots.

As for the FTP, while most teams use it simply for uploading code built through their IDE of choice quite a few teams use it for other things such as autonomous scripts, log files, and saving images.