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0 points_joel1mo ago0 comments

Are these hacks or cracks. I'd say the latter.

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I wouldn't. It doesn't appear that anything was cracked. Rather they just reverse engineered the protocol.

a961mo ago

That's a crack, but repurposing price tags to display things they weren't intended to is a hack.

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I wouldn't. It doesn't appear that anything was cracked. Rather they just reverse engineered the protocol.

a961mo ago

That's a crack, but repurposing price tags to display things they weren't intended to is a hack.

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