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Bummer they didn’t include the clip urls in the article.


Not powder but many other failures in a particular model of the Vietnam era m16:

https://www.pewpewtactical.com/m16-vietnam-failure/

(I own an ar15 and an ak47 and it is like comparing Microsoft’s MFC to a shell script. The former is all bloat and high tolerances and the latter gets the job done with fewer moving parts.)


Both guns have a bolt carrier, rotating bolt, and similar amounts of fire control group components. Both need to be headspaced within a spec of a few thousandths of an inch.

The biggest difference is about 20 years of industrial development (moving from stamped/milled steel to aluminum)


This should be modded up higher. Exactly. The only way hackers found this is because they weren’t using secure boot or encrypted images. Every embedded developer knows about MCUboot. Except managers don’t want the overhead because it is complicated. Once embedded devs get the ok all embedded firmware will basically be like a Signal chat with only the manufacturer having the keys. Heck even PSA compliant hardware MUST be resistant to multibit glitch attacks. Bye bye hackers.


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