Tbf I don’t think CSC Serviceworks intentionally stole residents money. They just ignored the problems … like you’re doing rn.

His work around is here.

https://michael.orlitzky.com/articles/csc_serviceworks_laundry_machine_coin_bypass.xhtml

Lots of places forbide it, on the off chance it floods the unit. There’s also the thing (when renting an older unit) where water usage is included in the rent … and they don’t want you using more than they allot in their assessments.

Can’t have anyone dipping into their profits.

Double dipping right there. Make money on rent AND selling renter’s data. Capitalism at it’s best. :/

The Eye might tell you, if he’s in a good mood.

I can’t wait to see what a crystal hologram reader is gonna cost. :-p

A small blurb from The Guardian on why Andres Freund went looking in the first place.

So how was it spotted? A single Microsoft developer was annoyed that a system was running slowly. That’s it. The developer, Andres Freund, was trying to uncover why a system running a beta version of Debian, a Linux distribution, was lagging when making encrypted connections. That lag was all of half a second, for logins. That’s it: before, it took Freund 0.3s to login, and after, it took 0.8s. That annoyance was enough to cause him to break out the metaphorical spanner and pull his system apart to find the cause of the problem.