Tactic: Impact

Technique: Tamper With Safety System

Tampering with Safety System means to edit and/or add code to the service or application that is responsible for the different safety measures of the robot.

Technique in practice

Tampering with the safety systems of a robot or device will in most cases lead to malfunctions and/or destruction of the robot. The safety systems are in place to prevent the system of the robot to reach certain thresholds that can lead to dangerous situation or to damage to the suroundings or to the robot itself.

Mitigations

mitigations

Detections

detections

Ethical Considerations

Documented incidents with autonomous robots

No incidents known at the time of writing.