Another ATM Maker Pwned by Googling

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Another ATM Maker Pwned by Googling

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday September 25, 2006 @07:41AM from the press-here-to-accept-fee-and-continue dept.

bagsc writes "Kevin Poulsen of Wired.com strikes fear into another ATM manufacturer. This time, Triton ATMs had their super-secret master codes revealed by simple Google searches. Tranax was the most recent company with this problem, but probably not the last."

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This is why... by Kenja · 2006-09-25 07:44 · Score: 4, Funny

This is why I keep all my money in gold bullion strapped into my underwear. Of course that makes my pants weigh too much to move around in, but I wasn't realy going anyplace any how.

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1. Re:This is why... by Aqua_boy17 · 2006-09-25 08:02 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Yeah, but just think about it for a secons. You've finally made the underpants gnome's business model make sense.
  
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2. Re:This is why... by FuzzyDaddy · 2006-09-25 08:04 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Hey, I had the weight problem too, so I switched to enriched uranium. It's a lot more valuable pound for pound, so it doesn't weigh me down so much.
  
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"pwned"? by IHSW · 2006-09-25 07:45 · Score: 3, Funny

What is "pwned"?
1. Re:"pwned"? by Apocalypse111 · 2006-09-25 07:56 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  When you have totally humiliated and/or beaten someone, you have "owned" them. A "p" is just an "o" with a stick on it, so "pwned", in my mind, is "owned with a stick".
  
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2. Re:"pwned"? by tupshin · 2006-09-25 07:58 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  !7'$ 1337 $p34k f0r "411 y0ur 84$3 4r3 8310ng 70 u$"
3. Re:"pwned"? by vadim_t · 2006-09-25 08:18 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Scary, I didn't need to make any effort to understand that.
4. Re:"pwned"? by tupshin · 2006-09-25 08:45 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  !n $0v!37 ru$$!4, 7h3 !n73rn37 r3m0v3$ y0u.
5. Re:"pwned"? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-09-25 09:03 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  !7'$ 1337 $p34k f0r "411 y0ur 84$3 4r3 8310ng 70 u$"
  
  vadim_t (324782) writes:
  Scary, I didn't need to make any effort to understand that.
  
  God, I really hate perl.
  Since you seem to know, what does that script actually do? :)
6. Re:"pwned"? by RsG · 2006-09-25 10:54 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Actually what's really scary is that he included the apostrophe in "!7'$". What's the world coming to when 1337 speak is being done with proper grammar? Madness, I say!
  
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Re:Pwned? by x-kaos · 2006-09-25 07:46 · Score: 2, Funny

I agree, I had no idea people from the WoW general forums were submitting stories here!
Predicted response by aafiske · 2006-09-25 07:46 · Score: 4, Funny

Probable solution? Sue google.

I wish this was a joke.
Should have waited by Midnight+Thunder · 2006-09-25 07:48 · Score: 2, Funny

Given that Google is likely to have cached the manuals and the patches will not be ready for a couple of months (certification et al.), I wonder whether the author should have waited a few weeks before publishing the article, to give the manufacturers a chance to spread the word.

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pwnage sux by Anonymous Coward · 2006-09-25 08:05 · Score: 5, Funny

Who do I have to murder to remove "pwn" from the common technobabble lexicon?

I'll do it... Seriously...
Re:What?!!? by shawn(at)fsu · 2006-09-25 08:09 · Score: 4, Funny

Even if it IS a stupid BANK error, why do people feel the need to take advantage of it?!?!
You must be new here, and by here I mean humanity.

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I don't get it... by Yonzie · 2006-09-25 08:11 · Score: 3, Funny

Obviously, people don't have the brain capacity to be serious about security.
What should we do?
It's simple: Shut down the internet.
No more easily-guessed passwords or dissemination of information on how to break into stuff.
No child porn proliferation and no worries about your 9yr old girl chatting with 45yr olds.
An extreme decline in virii and similar stuff for everyone's favorite OS.

In total? Awesomeness :D
Re:Lipman ATM's by Volante3192 · 2006-09-25 08:29 · Score: 2, Funny

If it's a money dispencer then you consider this common sense i think.

Common sense isn't. This is why curling irons have "Do not insert into any orifice" on a warning label.
OT: What is the tune the ATM plays and why? by paiute · 2006-09-25 08:42 · Score: 3, Funny

My local bank has a Diebold ATM. Both this one and the one it replaced play a tune when dispensing bills. It is a short tune as if played on a piccolo with a trill at the end. It has been bugging me for years. Why does the ATM need to play a tune?

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1. Re:OT: What is the tune the ATM plays and why? by KarmaMB84 · 2006-09-25 09:07 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  To let the thugs know there's money coming out so they know to beat you for it.
Re:Pwned? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-09-25 08:47 · Score: 1, Funny

Not to be picky, but I've seen and hated the term pwned long before WoW ever existed.