Comment on Redbox’s disc rentals are over
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months agoI guess you could have the machine format the drive every time it comes back
Yup, that’s the plan. You turn it in, it reimages it to whatever the next customer is likely to need, and if a customer asks for something out of left-field, it would reflash and take a bit longer.
Flashing on return is essential because it checks whether the returned item is still in working order, so it really wouldn’t be an issue.
cestvrai@lemm.ee 2 months ago
The USB port of the machine is also an attack vector.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Eh, I suppose, but they could design the USB drive really hard to infect. The more narrow your use-case, the more options you have to secure it.