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Man Used MP3 Player To Hack Cash Machines
Juha-Matti Laurio writes "A man in Manchester, England has been convicted of using an MP3 player to hack cash machines. The MP3 player was plugged into the back of free standing cash machines in bars. Tones being recorded from the phone line were decoded with special software to a readable format. Later this information was used to clone credit cards."
too bad he's joined the dark side :(
MP3 players don't defraud bank customers, people defraud bank customers.
Unless of course they are Cylon MP3 players. Then they don't stop at fraud.
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You see, my friends ridiculed me for getting an Archos Jukebox instead of an iPod.
Guess they never saw the money making potential.
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Really. We need to ban MP3 players and send terrorists (illegal MP3 player users) to Gitmo.
The ATM charged him for all the illegal download music on his MP3 player so the robbery was a net loss.
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I saw this movie! Harrison Ford was in it, and lots of people were talking about how stupid it was, except he used the MP3 wired to a fax machine to "read" the numbers off the screen, which was pretty stupid.
It's too bad they didn't think up something more plausible like what this guy did.
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Um, what do cops ask for over there when they pull you over for a u-turn? Licence, registration, and credit card???
If it had been an Ogg Vorbis player, instead of allowing the man to steal for himself, it would have taken the total balance on the cash machine and redistributed it equally to all accounts.
He wouldn't have got caught had he used Ogg Vorbis!!
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If I'm arrested by British policemen in London, I won't forget to remind them the constitution and its 4th amendment...And if they laugh and I will ask kindly but firmly to talk to their president.