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Snowing Facility Tour: Secret Control Room and HMI Revealed! #shorts

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Escorted by a white team member at 1 AM, we bypassed alarms to explore a hazardous facility. The control room revealed an HMI—a human-machine interface. What processes did it control? #bsidesfrankfurt #bsides #bsidesfra
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It was still snowing at night at like 1:00 a.m. and we were escorted by a YT team member who was authorized to access the facility and had all the access keys and whatever and he briefly disabled the alarms and let us in and then also followed us around because it's a quite hazardous environment, right? You can't just let us randomly jump around there. So, uh we had a look at the facility but didn't get as far in the public tour as you would have would have liked to because we didn't know yet where to go. So we just explored the space was quite big and then eventually we found that control room super interesting. We found

that there was a an HMI which is an industrial um like human machine interface. It's um a display that lets you control the um the the processes that take place there,