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Windows ATMs by 2005
An anonymous reader writes "O'Reilly Developer News is running a brief on how the banking industry will be running a stripped down version of windows on 65% of its ATM machines by 2005. On a morning when I'm receiving the latest windows virus in my inbox every five minutes I feel very comfortable with this."
Holy cow! Can you say, "Free cash!"
Just stand in front of ATM the next time a worm rocks through and watch it start spitting out bills.
ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You must not reboot to receive your cash.
134340: I am not a number. I am a free planet!
posted anonymously to not lose kharma for funny.
A FATAL EXCEPTION 0$ HAS OCCURRED.
Please contact your financial administrator
See the Pictures of the Flood of '08
now instead of the usual $1.50, im gonna be charged a liscence fee, and will ahve to pay extra if i want receipt support.....
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... Debt.
Windows on an ATM - already happening. Already
getting errors.
"They have tried to cut out the unnecessary rubbish that clutters up the typical PC."
but.. but.. the article says they're running Windows.. now I'm confused.
Trolling is a art,
I'll start working on modifying my ATM card's magnetic strip to overflow the ATMs card reader.
If I get cash from an Microsoft ATM, do I have to put it in a Microsoft Wallet?
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
I'm not sure of actual numbers, but I recall that IBM is heavily invested in Diebold, a major ATM manufacturer. I also recall that a large percentage of ATM machines run OS/2.
If this is true, I would expect IBM to be pushing a linux-based solution.
But then again, who knows what the banks want to buy? I just got a letter last week from my bank informing me that "for my security" they will be requiring online banking customers to use 128 bit encryption. Ack! 1998 called, they want their security back!
I will write a worm that will traverse through the banking/ATM networks, adding money to your accnts. Just identify yourselves w/ your Acct# and PIN and by 2005 you will be rich.
Looks like it's time to pull all the cash out of the banks and go back to the Bank of Between The Matresses. Last thing we need is a stupid windows worm to have a huge impact on the finances of the United States (or any other countries that use this scheme).
Oh, and out of spite, i'll figure out a way to make my bed run FreeBSD* or something.
[*]"BSD" always makes me think of something like Bondage/Sado-Domination or something.
do() || do_not();
"You have requested $40. Last week, you withdrew $50. Are you sure that you don't need the extra $10?"
"You appear to be paying your credit card bill. I see that you have $2,000 credit remaining. Would you like me to order the latest quality products from Microsoft for you?"
-Stephen
just wait until Outlook is integrated for messaging. Log into your bank account and find a message waiting from Mr.Kerberos of Nigeria with $2M waiting for you. [press 'okay' to accept wire transfer of 2,000,000,000,000]
..for burying my money in a coffee can in my back yard
I tried pressing buttons, but the damn thing wouldn't give me a DOS prompt...ATM.exe --dispense=20000...
From Microsoft on how ATM works...
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ohhhhh... you mean... gotcha... nevermind.
can you imagine 60% of the ATMs in your city hitting windowsupdate.com all together?
what about 60% of the ATMs in the US hitting it?
Damn, we'll have to rename the slashdot effect into ATMeffect
-- There are two kind of sysadmins: Paranoids and Losers. (adapted from D. Bach)
From a bank marketing analyst explaining the migration of ATM OS to windows:
"With open technologies it is easier to run different types of hardware on the same software."
and that's right, he's referring to Windows as 'open' technology.
Banks are merging and acquiring different machines, and tired of writing changes a half dozen times or more. yet they're going with the high cost option, instead of the obvious one.
a -security- company -CTO- exec gets a runner up prize for 'Dumbest Thing a Security Consultant Could Possibly Say' by suggesting that the ATMs wouldn't be vulnerable to the myriad MS worms and viruses because they dont work online.
this not even a year after Slammer -did- manage to shut down many ATMs which -also- were not online.
This Wired article reads like an Onion article.
// "Can't clowns and pirates just -try- to get along?"
In Sweden, at least one major bank has used MS-DOS for their ATM:s. I saw one of these in a "funny" state (late 1999, I think) and of course took some shots...
:)
Images here
The server is a powerful Pentium 120 with a whopping 40 MB of RAM, so if it's slow, just keep banging on it..
Yeah, they have built in failsafes to keep this from happening. Just like the power companies have built in failsafes to keep a massive blackout from occuring.
In early May of this year I was in the drive through ATM and the machine had a stack of twenties trapped in the slot where the money comes out. Hey, you can flame me for this but I jiggled the stack out slowly enough so only the top four bills tore. Drove away with $2320.00, bought myself a new car stereo and a pair of nikeys. I'm not a saint and neither are the Bank CEO's, Flame Away.
So, are you posting from that ATM right now?
Blue Screen of Debt!
"Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." - A.B.
'nuff said.
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The fake Gzip Christ isn't not user number ~0xA6CA7
"A critical flaw has been discovered in Windows ATM Edition in which customers whose PIN ends in 4 can execute arbitrary code by means of a buffer overflow."
Who doesn't like free music?
I've had a picture of this ATM for the past 5 years on my website :)
<grub> Reading
Hmmm - this doesn't make me want to run out and translate all of my electronic funds into cash or gold bars, that I methodically hide in deep holes around my property and under the mattress...(nudge-nudge, wink-wink!)
For the tin-hat wearers out there (and you know who you are):
Does anyone find it interesting that the leading ATM company, Diebold, is going into online voting, while Microsoft, a company known for its dirty dealings, is going into ATMs?
Lodragan Draoidh
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it. - Mark Twain
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"A Windows platform will give us more flexibility and opportunity for future enhancements," said Julie Davis, spokeswoman for Bank of America, the biggest U.S. bank. "The Windows platform allows us to put even better protections in place. However, we won't discuss the details of our security procedures."
To answer question someone asked earlier: yes, I do believe IT in banks is run by morons, as this clearly illustrates.
Last year a Windows-based ATM appeared on the corner near my girlfriend's mum's house. Looks very pretty, colour LCD screen, landscape pictures, etc. The third time I used it there was a dialog splashed across the middle of the screen, warning me that the system was running out of virtual memory and I should close some applications...
Note that most of the London (at least, maybe England) rail status notification boards are WinNT boxes. Its often to walk in and watch these reboot, or have "Running out of virtual memory..." splashed across the route of the 16:05 the Caterham.