@lain @kaia
It's embarrassing, but I used to do it a lot when CCTV cams weren't even remotely that common: vending machines, street pay phones, even those Soviet code locks used to unlock entrances of houses. I didn't even do it for the money — I was well aware of the tricks you could use to cheat them, but I was still interested in how they work. They were demonstrating coin-operated machines at the Polytechnic Museum, but my parents never took me there 😩
@lain @kaia
One pay phone on a distant sparsely populated street got it particularly bad — they were made of steel or other strong metal, but as I got a little help from my friends, there was literally nothing there to repair — they have just replaced it in a few months. And it only had four coins inside — definitely not the main motivation 😅
