so it has watched the first few episodes of murderbot and it is really liking it so far , some context on their world building :

• Security units (abbreviated to SecUnits) are robots based on humans with heavy augmentation
• one of these augmentations is a "governor module" which appears to be the primary method for controlling the SecUnits: it penalizes the SecUnit for not following orders.

So here is a part of the opening scene :

I had devoted every spare second on this [minor] planet trying to hack my governor module, and now was a moment of truth: I just isolated an admin password and I was gonna use it to crack the final core encryption. Okay, patching the code... Holy shit... Holy shit, it worked!

like idk if its just a nerd but wouldn't this scene be much better if it was instead a vague description of a exploit chain ? ex. "I spent months finding little holes and connecting them, starting from a buffer overflow, getting arbitrary code execution, a privilege escalation, bypassing a signature check and I finally had enough to take control of the governor module."

like sure its longer and most entities won't know what it means , but like show a animation showing multiple layerd with small red holes and a line weaving between them going through holes and it will give the point across while sounding more impressive no ?

cause like what it understands its words as is the governor module has a backdoor . on a machine which is explicitly armed . yeag the attack surface isn't much for an outside attacker but still wtf .

like its really sad to it that they haven't put more work into their worldbuilding , the computer details are really underwhelming , more examples :

• murderbot (main character) apparently has a large amount of access to the system of the habitat (all security cameras (some of which are positioned very much not like security cameras btw) , the media library)
• in a scene where another character (also a cyborg but moreso on the lightly augmented human end) tried so access something related to murderbot (backups or logs don't remember , will edit once it finds the scene) and murderbot was able to disswade him by showing a security camera of other characters kissing

like the show seems nice yeag but aagh