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Kids With Operators Manual Alert Bank Officials: "We Hacked Your ATM"
An anonymous reader writes "Two 14-year-olds hacked a Bank of Montreal ATM after finding an operators manual online that showed how to gain administrative control. Matthew Hewlett and Caleb Turon alerted bank employees after testing the instructions on an ATM at a nearby supermarket. At first the employees thought the boys had the PIN numbers of customers. 'I said: "No, no, no. We hacked your ATM. We got into the operator mode,"' Hewlett was quoted as saying. Then, the bank employees asked for proof. 'So we both went back to the ATM and I got into the operator mode again,' Hewlett said. 'Then I started printing off documentations like how much money is currently in the machine, how many withdrawals have happened that day, how much it's made off surcharges. Then I found a way to change the surcharge amount, so I changed the surcharge amount to one cent.'"
In other news, domestic terrorist ringleaders Matthew Hewlett and Caleb Turon were arrested today in what Department of Homeland Security spokesman Peter Atriot called "a blow for freedom against Jihadists". The two men are believed to diverted funds vital to global banking, thereby aiding and assisting worldwide terror organisations.
That's the password on my luggage.
So.... they had the manual with passwords....
this is hacked.... how?
Same way I hacked my VCR so it doesn't flash 12:00 anymore!
Okay, a lifetime of prison with the signs also in French.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
I'm actually surprised they're not yet in jail...
Write boring code, not shiny code!
Not just in French, but with the French on top and in a larger typeface so that it is markedly predominant.
It's the law.
So.... they had the manual with passwords....
this is hacked.... how?
Same way I hacked my VCR so it doesn't flash 12:00 anymore!
Wait.. what? You can do that?
Jail would only have been a concern if they weren't in Quebec and changed the default language to english, as part of their 'proof'.
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That is the funniest gdamn post I've read in quite a while. Maybe you have to be Canadian for it to be funny.
Even worse, maybe you have to a Canadian in Ontario (which I am).
But that was damn funny. Thanks for the Laugh of the Day.
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What a shame that Slashdot spent so much time on a 'beta' site instead of adding an option to retract or edit a comment. I saw further down that someone made the same joke, and don't want to get sued for infringement.
We need some moderation to mark a post Sad instead of Funny.
> and don't want to get sued for infringement.
No problems. You can only be accused of ignorance since Winnipeg is a little far from Quebec.
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
It's Canada, not the US.
Yet...
It's Canada, not the US.
Well that explains them reading the manual. Or anything, for that matter.
Have gnu, will travel.