>
>
> Gack! Inexperienced programmer-- no defensive programming used. So the RAM
> is probably getting corrupted by electrical noise or something of that ilk.


I tend to agree, but maybe there was some reason to have them in RAM.

It's best to fix the noise and then use the defensive programming as
> security, but that will mean hardware design changes as well as tweaking
> the firmware. But I'd recommend it.


Agreed. Patching over a problem is a great way to make sure you have to
solve it again later.
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