Five Stories About Saying To Hell With Rules and Regulations

[james_davis_nicoll]

Why let safety or common sense get in the way of fun?

Five Stories About Saying To Hell With Rules and Regulations

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[armiphlage]

Laurence E. Dahners wrote multiple series where the brilliant protagonist invented something novel, and evil faculty, mobsters, bosses, and/or government officials kidnapped them, stole their devices, and/or attempted to reverse engineer the invention.

In all cases, they were defeated by incorporating an extra short circuit or open circuit in the plans sent to the factory; the inventor would then cut a trace or add a wire to make it work.

In some cases, the inventor also added thermite, opaque conformal coatings, or passwords on the software that ran the invention.