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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."
By noticing that the name on the card didn't match the name on his driver's license?
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Maybe not in Europe, but in the U.S. all information is encrypted using 3DES or other encryption algorithms (it's now mandatory by law). On some machines (like the Diebold ATMs), hardware encryption is used in the keypad. This ensures that even if you somehow planted a device inside the ATM to capture data sent from the keypad to the CPU you still wouldn't be able to get personal information.
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Just go in looking like a technician, with a briefcase of tools, plus a fake ID with the logo of the ATM manufacturer on it. Nobody would know, especially in a hotel etc, and you'd probably get unrestricted access to the machine - maybe even more than that, eg access to all the documentation for it, the hotel account details etc.
The TDES encryption only encrypts the PIN block. The PAN and other card information is still in the clear.
This is also mandated in Europe
US police DO NOT have the right to search your car for a routine traffic stop. It is a violation of the 4th amendment, and every time a cop asks to search your vehicle without reason, and you let him, you are just throwing your constitutional rights away. If a cop pulls you over because you were speeding or your inspection is expired or because you didn't come to a complete stop at a stop sign, et al, he does not have the right to search your vehicle. I repeat:
POLICE DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO SEARCH YOUR CAR DURING A ROUTINE TRAFFIC STOP IN THE US!!!
Now then, if something else is amiss, like say, when the cop turned on his lights, you started throwing bags of white powder out the windows onto the highway median, then he does have the right to search your vehicle.
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Are you a retard? Why do you think the infinite wisdom of average IQ morons on YouTube somehow makes a statement of irrefutable fact?
Are you familiar with video editing? The video was "zoomed in" and as the suspect moved around, the zoomed in frame was moved around to focus on his movements. This is a very common procedure for CCTV footage aired on TV.
The link is to a story about a guy who reprogrammed an ATM to think it was dispensing 5s while it was actually dispensing 20s. I was able to find the default passwords and re-programming instructions (all in the owner's manual) on the net without much trouble. At least one owner didn't bother to change the default passwords. I wonder how many others failed to do so.
Not when you realize they're talking about a default password.
Bruce Schneier covered the story in question awhile ago. Lots of good comments on the page, too: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/09/pro
....just become a bank. Really, why go low scale? You are allowed to loan money which doesn't even exist, and to receive back the theoretical principal along with *interest*. It's the biggest economic scam and legalized theft scheme out there, and it is widespread in the vast number of nations simply because it is such a wonderful way for those goons to "make money" without working for it.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_b
Cops are in general just retarded, just follow orders from their masters, their "superior" beings, and serve to protect the really BIG crooks, and bust the small timers. Does anyone REALLY think that the vast sums of money from say the drug trade DON'T flow through a lot of banks? Now you have two examples.
"The video of the suspect is a fake. Fixed cameras can't track movement like that. Even a remote movable camera couldn't pan that smoothly. CNN should have the decency to say openly that the video is a dramatization."
BUT a shoulder-mounted camera held by a cameraman pointed at a CCTV display and zoomed in on the suspect CAN track movement.
"The idea that there's a "magic code" you can enter to edit ATM internals is ridiculous."
Agreed, but it's true.
"In order to edit any ATM internals you need to open the machine"
Not true. Many kiosk ATMs are programmed from the front panel, there's not always a need to open the machine for various administrative actions.
"which would give you direct access to the cash ANYWAY."
Also not true. You can open it but the money is still in locked steel dispenser-cages, and those cages are usually locked into the machine even with the door open.
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...and your rights are gone. They might even bring the K9 unit out and get the dog to bark on command.
NORML's is here, and another one from a lawyer is here. Well worth printing out and laminating and keeping in your billfold. Two things to note: 1) If you happen to be on a military base, even just to turn around and leave because you made a wrong turn, your rights are severely abridged. If you are on their property the military is free to search anything they want. 2) The War On Drugs has created a lot more room for officers to manuever in if the key phrase "drugs" is used. Here is a rather disheartening discussion about this "special" area of search law.