Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-29684190-20191109160654/@comment-25396609-20191109174057

You forget that Penny isn't some ordinary robot. She is a living, thinking person; whatever code she's running off of is probably lightyears ahead of anything else on the planet.

It is common in sci-fi for synths to be hackable, sure, but in those settings the technology to manufacture artificial people is commonplace and has generally been around for decades.

Penny, in contrast, is literally the first of her kind.