[quote=@thatguy]
Well the way I see it, he can talk to machines right? So out in the world it be something like "Hey Bank of America ATM, how's it going? The wife and kid doing good? I was wondering if I could borrow a few bucks if that's ok?"

In the prison it would be some thing primitive and simple like, "you lock. Me prisoner. Me want you open."

In the real world he can make machines do whatever by talking to them and persuading them as if they actually had emotions and opinions and lives, but in prison he can't appeal to them that way which makes it much harder for them to cooperate.
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That makes a lot less sense to me then what I had first envisioned as his ability to talk to machines. I would have thought that his brain would send out modified delta waves to carry binary signals which are then translated by the machine he's talking to into whatever programming language it needs to understand the message and that would let him send commands to machines and make them do what he wants them to. The scrambler could work like a traditonal radio jammer would and jumble up his messages so he would basically be sending gibberish messages. At least that's how my nerd brain explained it...