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ATM Vendors Threaten, Stop Research Presentation

Posted by Soulskill on from the money-inside-atms-wants-to-be-free dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A presentation about 'The Underground Economy,' by Italian white hat hacker and security expert Raoul Chiesa, was replaced at the last minute during last week's Hack In The Box conference. The reason behind this cancellation was that Chiesa received legal pressure from ATM vendors over the fact that the originally scheduled presentation covers details of various techniques and exploits of vulnerabilities that cyber criminals use to break into ATMs — flaws that have been known for a long time."

6 of 134 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Publish it on Piratebay instead by techsoldaten · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here are the slides.

    http://www.slideshare.net/null0x00/raoul-nullcon2010-day1

    He gave this presenation at nullcon already. Nothing too creepy there...

    M

  2. Re:Publish it on Piratebay instead by MagicM · · Score: 4, Informative

    He edited out the "creepy" slides (37 and 39).

  3. Re:Publish it on Piratebay instead by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 2, Informative

    They don't have the right, but they do have the guns and goons.

  4. Re:Publish it on Piratebay instead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    They're, as in "THEY ARE." Not "there." It's really not that hard. *sigh* Kids these days...

  5. Re:Publish it on Piratebay instead by commodore64_love · · Score: 4, Informative

    13,256,278,887,989,457,651,018,865,901,401,704,640

    I am protected by this law, which nullifies any other law: "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press" and "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." and "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

    Give me the paper that was banned from the conference. I'll publish it. I don't give a frak.

    --
    "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
  6. Slides are sanitized by prxp · · Score: 3, Informative
    According to TFA:

    Even though this is not the first time that ATM vendors prevented a security researcher to publicly disclose findings about flaws in their devices at a conference, this instance is really surprising, since Chiesa held this same presentation at a couple of security conferences already, and the slides he employed are also available online.

    The thing is these slides are sanitized, the details of the ATM attack were removed.

    Does anybody know where to find a non-sanitized version?