Tinkerers are Taking Home and Reverse Engineering Redbox Kiosks

People are repurposing the massive DVD kiosks they've saved from the scrap heap. The code that runs Redbox DVD rental machines has been dumped online, and, in the wake of the company’s bankruptcy, a community of tinkerers and reverse engineers are probing the operating system to learn how it works. Naturally, one of the first things people did was make one of the machines run Doom.