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nwillc

They tried to charge IT for coffee

Worked one place were they decided the coffee was costing them too much so they bolted on an after market card reader to the existing machine. The idea being we could pay with the cards we used at the cafeteria - where they didn't trust the cashiers with actual money.

Being IT we figured out that if we selected the coffee you wanted, inserted the card, and immediately hit "brew", while yanking the card out,

the reader couldn't process the transaction but the machine started brewing. Left there about a year later ... and the hack still worked.

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