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ATM Vendors Threaten, Stop Research Presentation
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."
No government nor corporation has a right to muzzle our mouths.
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The people who are using it to cause damages already know how this is done. The only dangerous part about something like this is that the public might be made aware of just how far from secure most financial transactions are.
you'd rather your bank was burgled?
No, I'd rather hold the bank responsible for any loss. They should have to replace the money. With that kind of incentive, they might actually try to make their systems a bit more secure. An important step in this direction would be to quit using cheap commodity systems in their networks.
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presenting this information can only decrease the security and value of your savings.
You're an idiot.
As the article states, the information is already known by the bad guys. Keeping it secret helps the bad guys, and hurts everyone else. Making it public will encourage the banks to fix the vulnerabilities, which will increase the security and value of my savings.
anyone that argues that the information needs to be public is probably broke.
No, the people who argue that the information needs to be public actually understand the issue here.
in the USA?? I would not recommend that at all. Just put it on the net from a secure location..
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Remember when Jeff Moss had his talk cancelled, or Kim Zetter? All it did was make people salivate to read thier presentation when they released it online at a later date. The last thing you want to do to this demographic is tell them the info is "too dangerous (see awesome) for them to hear. It will be everywhere with in the week.
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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?