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Another ATM Maker Pwned by Googling

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Not quite... by Crasoum · · Score: 1, Troll

    Weapons grade uranium has a risk of zero of carving hole sin your body, unless you happen to set it off, then you have MUCH larger problems to worry about then... Holes being carved in your body, more like holes being carved in your side of the planet. WGU's radiation is mostly alpha particles which won't even penetrate your skin, let alone get to living tissue.

    http://www.umich.edu/~radinfo/introduction/lesson/ properties.htm

  2. Re:pwned haha by typical · · Score: 0, Troll

    Listen up kids

    Listen up, kids

    "owned", "pwned", "h4x0red", "l33t",

    "owned", "pwned", "h4x0red", and "l33t" [no comma]

    was interesting for about 5 minutes 5 years ago,

    were interesting for about five minutes five years ago;

    Stop using them, it's pathetically annoying.

    Stop using them; it's pathetically annoying.

    Try using some proper English for once.

    Yes.

    --
    Any program relying on (nontrivial) preemptive multithreading will be buggy.