Gee, I wonder which buttons are part of this hospital drawer lock code?

Surely they protect the drugs and medicines and stuff with a decent non-guessable number of digits.

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@deviantollam Hospitals and doctor's offices seem like a target-rich environment. Open USB ports and patient left alone for 20 minutes. Crappy pushbutton cabinet locks to protect nothing of importance. All medical equipment sending your info to the MFG. All interactions and any online visits monitored and recorded by Epic, who then dun the providers for not extracting the maximum amount possible from each patient.

And that doesn't even mention the real security holes in all this.

@deviantollam Near-verbatim thought process:

“Ok, one number is worn off a bit”
“That’s bad”
“Wait, am I seeing this right?”
“Yes, *only* one number is worn off a bit”
“That’s incredibly bad”

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This is even more fun on the locks where order doesn't matter

@sabik @deviantollam @alice I'm unsure where in "777" the order matters! 😂

(Don't worry, I know what you mean. The digimechs.)

@Dss @deviantollam @alice
On the bright side, they reduce the number of required keypresses; just mash your thumb over all four digits of the code 🤷‍♀️

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At least it wasn't 1234??

@deirdrebeth if four buttons were worn off It would have been harder to guess at least 😂
@deviantollam 777. Tickles me that this is a level of access control that so closely aligns with chmod.