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Citibank Tries to Hush ATM Crypto Vulnerability

palme999 writes "Citibank is trying to get a gag order for new vulnerabilities found in the cryptographic equipment commonly used to protect the PINs of ATM transactions. The vulnerabilities came to light during a court case involving 'phantom' ATM transactions that users deny making but that banks still charge to customers accounts because they claim their systems are secure."

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  1. Snake Oil by pkcs11 · · Score: -1, Troll

    The two biggest sources of snake oil today: Linux & Banking Both claim to provide something they can't deliver.

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  2. Shit..that's a good joke! by Shit...that's+a+good · · Score: -1, Troll

    Shit...that's a good joke!

  3. Matlock Is My Cousin by Acidic_Diarrhea · · Score: -1, Troll

    First of all, the plural of virus is viruses. The "word" "virii" does not exist so cut it out. Second of all, the number of viruses for a particular architecture/protocol/application/operating system is directly proportional to the installed user base. Stop trolling in this manner.

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  4. How clever! Reverse karma whore. by Mothra+the+III · · Score: 0, Troll

    It the great /. tradition of saying something fast rather than saying it properly. Nice work!

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  5. This PROVES RUSH LIMBAUGH IS RIGHT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Put all your money into gold bars folks. The global economic collapse is around the corner. Stock up on hamburger helper and ammo.

  6. Jane Goodall Is My Cousin by Acidic_Diarrhea · · Score: -1, Troll
    I was not denying your right to talk about OS/2. I was explaining to you why it is unlikely for an OS that is not widely used to have viruses written for it. A virus writer wants to affect the most systems, in most cases, and thus an OS such as OS/2 with a very low installed user base, does not warrant much interest. Why are you so angry? I never said you didn't have a right to talk about OS/2 and my correction of your grammar was 100% correct. I thought you would like to know because when I hear people use the "word" "virii", I think much less of them.

    Saying "blow me" is really mature, by the way.

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  7. Re:Choose your own PIN by Old+Wolf · · Score: 0, Troll

    NZ is also (mostly) immune to these problems because banks don't store PINs. All transactions are done online to one big server which has very tight access controls.

  8. Re:right to know by SpaceLifeForm · · Score: 0, Troll

    Mods, save your points for me since I'm going to be poking my GF later.

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  9. Re:Oprah Is My Cousin by MImeKillEr · · Score: -1, Troll

    Actually, I've been tapping your mom's ass all week. .. and been forcing your daddy to watch me double up on her and your sister.

    As for hitting the bottom of the barrel - you're probably right. Neither your mom or your sister were any good. I imagine you probably thought their twats were golden.

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  10. Re:Release the lawyers!!! by stephanruby · · Score: 0, Troll
    Actually, I would be happier with a settlement that forced atm usage to be free.

    Why stop there? Why don't you force all business owners to let us use their phones for free?

  11. Harrison Ford Is My Cousin by Acidic_Diarrhea · · Score: -1, Troll
    Pussy? Yeah, right. You love cock. You can't get enough man-sausage.

    Doing a quick calculation, it appears that in your short lifetime you've already sucked 25,000 different dicks. That's a lot of dick. Now, let us assume that each dick was sucked a minimum of 10 times. Obviously this is a low estimate since we both know that you've sucked your dad off at least 1,000 times. But anyway, this means you've given 250,000 blow jobs. Now then this article points out that each ejaculation averages to be about 1 tablespoon of semen and semenal fluid. 1 tablespoon is equal to 15 mL according to this article. So if you've had 250,000 tablespoons of semen shot into you, you've consumed 3,750,000 mL of semen. Furthermore we know that 1 quart equals 946.36 mL from this webpage. Therefore, you have had 3,962 quarts of semen. Ultimately, this means that you've ingested 990 gallons of semen. Consider this, an in-ground pool with dimensions of five feet by seven feet and a shallow depth of one foot and a deep depth of seven feet holds roughly 1,050 gallons (source). You've drank an entire swimming pool of semen.

    Ultimately, you're a homosexual and this means that you will soon be battling AIDS so don't expend energy trying to keep up with me, you lazy Muslim.

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  12. Barry Goldwater Is My Cousin by Acidic_Diarrhea · · Score: -1, Troll
    "Just the simple fact that you keep coming back for the abuse goes to reinforce my belief that you're a worthless bag of flesh, here for my amusement (not unlike your daddy's scrotum was for you in your youth)."
    Kettle, pot: black. You figure it out towel-head.

    Work on your material though. The whole family thing isn't really as witty as you seem to think it is. Oh, and those sites I "linked" to [you Internet-guru you! look at you with the terminology - I bet your community college instructors would be proud to see you now] were easily found with this exciting "Internet" website called Google. Check it out some time! Now, come back with something son.

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