We Hacked Burger King: How Auth Bypass Led to Drive-Thru Audio Surveillance

Re:We Hacked Burger King: How Auth Bypass Led to Drive-Thru ... by weitendorf on Saturday September 06, 2025 @10:25AM (#45149534)

I don’t think that argument really works in situations like this because hacking Burger King requires a pretty high level of intent + ability and isn’t something that just naturally happens. Like you have to sit down and say “Today I want to try to hack Burger King” and then spend several hours doing just that.

To me it seems like quite a stretch for “don’t hack me” to get framed as “Burger King is leveraging their corporate power to tell me what to do against my will”.

And to be clear I actually do think that it would be better for Burger King to invite and reward responsible disclosure, in the same way that you’d want your bank to have a hotline for people to report problems like doors that won’t lock. But if the bank didn’t have that hotline it wouldn’t excuse breaking in.

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Re:We Hacked Burger King: How Auth Bypass Led to Drive-Thru ... by tyami94 on Sunday September 07, 2025 @07:54AM (#45157394)

This is a red herring. They're obviously being silenced because they just obtained evidence that Burger King is recording and algorithmically analyzing every customer interaction to ensure that their wage-slave employees say "You rule!" the correct number of times per order. This is horrifying and dystopic, and it's certainly the bigger story here.

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