Maybe a dose of realism? To hack anything serious from the outside it would probably take weeks or months of investigation, programming, testing, … So if the players don’t have the time, physical access, or previous knowledge and tools, that’s a big nay. It depends on what type of sci-fi though, if it’s the movie / tv type where hacking is a shortcut to anything in record time, welp.

maybe they inverted arms and legs? im not sure about mouse anatomy

I thought we were done with the “medieval dark age” myth.

id call that out of bounds but ok

id call that a major glitch but ok