what do “hackers” mean by finding a “vulnerability”. It’s hard to understand how there can be a gap in code that grants that much access.

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There is a great story about a casino that got hacked that cost them millions of dollars.

The casino had a secure wifi network, one of those networks where the password is 16 characters long and known to only a few trusted people. The fish tank in the casino had a wireless network connection for the computer that monitored its heater, for some reason it was on the secure network.

The fish tank monitor was made in China and had malware installed on it, eventually the hacker realized what it had access to and did what they do.