Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-92.18.14.163-20180325224119/@comment-26018514-20180327163203

Arkantos95 wrote: Masma93 wrote: Relying on a large mechanical army that can be hacked redirected against you can be a great mistake if you don't have security measures to prevent it or counter-measures to shut it down quickly if it has been hacked. By Ironwood's reaction to it, it was believed to be impossible for them to hack the machines. And despite SYUTK's theory that they had nothing in the way of cybersecurity, I think it's more that Watts is just that good. Unlikely, if I had to guess the reason they lost control is the "where" and "who" they hacked, Remnant probably doesn't generally need cybersecurity, as in general something like this is suicide, provided the individual robots are not hackable in the field just about every issue is not a problem... unless you know about Salem, James may be the only one who could have prevented this that knew about Salem during the robot design process... and he isn't an engineer or a great thinker(preferring to act first).

Ozpin and Co. *might* have been able to stop this had their only contact with the technology not been the idiot Ironwood, Polendina for instance likely would have seen the risk, but no-one in Ozpin's group(Including Ironwood) appear to be technologically proficient.