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Wells Fargo Web-Enables ATMs
smooth wombat writes "Wells Fargo has completed a five-year project to Web-enable its 6,200 ATMs in 23 states. Now the ATMS will be Windows based rather than OS/2 based. Avivah Litan, an analyst at Gartner Inc., in Stamford, Conn., said the move to Windows-based systems is "not great news for the security of the system. I'm sure there's a lot of holes that will be created because of this.""
However, come to think of it, a lot of those things would look better with that Aquarium Screensaver. I think I'll click on the ok download button next time.
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What could possibly go wrong?
Gretings, I am Govermet Minster of Nigeria, and if you send me your PIN you wil share 20% of 1.3 milion American US dolars that I must retrive. THis wil only take a moment since you are already at your ATM.
Are you implying that a Gartner analyst may not know what they're talking about?
That would certainly be a first.
The marketing people at Microsoft convinced them that .NET made everything secure!
They can't all be fake, and I have a good feeling about this one.
It's good too, because I needed a place to see MSNBC tickers and movie trailers and also get money at the same time.
Now that this has rolled out on all Wells Fargo ATM's, they will allow you to watch full movies on them and will be opening concession stands. If you pull up to an ATM, and the car in front of you has the windows all fogged up
or else!
Navigating around popup windows: 2 minutes of user frustration
Pressing "cancel" 10+ times to stop spyware installs: 2 minutes of user frustration
Entering pin number after someone else already pressed "ok" on spyware install: priceless
Does anyone else remember the end of Sneakers? Because that's what this reminds me of. I'm just thinking about the potential news headlines...
"Wells-Fargo reportedly went bankrupt yesterday. Company spokesman: 'The money... it just disappeared...'
In other news, the EFF is reporting record donations!"
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"Wells Fargo Web-Enables ATMs. Hilarity ensues."
Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
Great. As if waiting for some jerk to
- Check his balance
- transfer funds
- buy stamps
wasn't bad enough, now I have to wait for him toOverrated / Underrated : Moderation
The BOFH hates OS/2, and you DON'T want to make him mad.
Exam 4/C again. Maybe I'll do better this time.
..with home PCs.
We put Windows on them and gave them all high speed net access... it wasn't the most successful experiment, and they weren't stuffed full of cash.
That would be awesome. It would double apple's market share overnight!
Does OSX run outside the box?
Exam 4/C again. Maybe I'll do better this time.
They weren't helpful enough, Well Fargo ATM customers can now look forward to the ATM Assistant(TM)!
"Hi, I'm Clippy, would you like help:
Depositing Funds?
Withdrawing Funds?
Transfer your entire balance to r00m4n14n d00d?
Selecting the proper brick to smash my keyboard with?
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Blue Screen Of Debt
Does this means more pics like these:
Runtime error
Bluescreen
I gave up with the idea of an useful sig...
That can't mean they have more than 3000 in total, as that's only around half of 6046. Even in marketing-land where the margins are bigger, you'd need at least 5000 out of 6000 to claim "nearly all". Logically, this means they must have more than 3000 online stations in each of their 6046 branches. That's over 18 million Windows licenses. Some sales guy at MS just got a new yacht.
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All your money belong to us!
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
Run Ad-Aware
Run Spybot
fight ticket for parking meter that expired while you went through the windows routine at the atm
Rinse
Reboot
Repeat
Get cash?
Too secure.
Blue Sky Of Death
My karma is not a Chameleon.
"I see you have used this ATM before. Would you like me to remember your PIN so you won't have to enter it again?"
First one to install Linux on these machines gets a cookie, not to mention lots of money and some prison time...
Simply put, the OS/2 based ATMs didn't run the mission critical software that the Wells Fargo IT department felt was necessary on public access terminals, which is fundamentally what ATMs are. They require applications like Disk Defragmenter, Scandisk, Norton AV, Windows Update and Ad-Aware - none of which are available for the OS/2 platform.
:-)
In today's climate of non-stop worms, trojans and viruses, deploying an ATM with no virus removal software would be irresponsible on the part of Wells Fargo.
(With apologies to divisiontwo.com.
handy stuff like remote management
I think that's the problem that everyone is worried about... that all of the sudden all the machines will be "remote managed" by someone and they'll start spitting out free money. Or logging card numbers/PINs.
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No?
Thank you all for coming, the next "Corporations 101" lecture will be monday. Bring your notebooks.
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The Windoze enabled ATMs do not dispense more than $640. When asked about it, Bill Gates said, "$640 should be enough for anyone."
The really funny thing is, i was reading your comment through IE on my windows machine...
And when i went to scroll down I found out that it had locked up!
Not sure if Irony is the right word...
...whoever made the decision is probably going to pay...
Probably he is being payed an undisclosed sum by a Redmond based software vendor.
That's what I guess.
I thinks this guy is clever, because he has no accounts at Wells Fargo!
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