besides even if the check was just by photo, surely you don't expect everyone that is willing to go to the trouble of using false plates to be dumb enough not to use the same plate as a car with equal color and model?
And I guess they will be wearing a paper mask that will make them look like the owner of the car they pretend that they are driving?
As for the checks... Those would be done by police. Who are already employed patrolling the roads anyway. You just displace them closer to the tollbooths and give them a heads up what to look for.
And those they catch driving with fake plates - they are getting a felony charge. Among other things.
So, to sum it up...
At no extra cost (not counting the one-time tollbooth charging and recording equipment costs) city fills up its purse much more efficiently AND gets an added bonus of extra fines, arrests and charges of all those "smart" individuals who think that it would be great to swindle the city out of couple of dollars. Boy... are they going to be popular in prison.
Such problems may exist with roadside cameras - not tollbooths. Why? Cause it is a gate.
Through which it is wise to slow down, and if you choose not to - they can just add a couple of speed bumps. You were stopping up until now - now you just slow down a bit. So multiple hi-res cameras can take photos of the car, both license plates, driver and the the inside of the vehicle.
Innocent people get to prove it is not them speeding AND if it starts to be a regular thing at certain tollbooths - you just introduce "random police checks".
Random as in "we have a photo of the car and the driver that thinks he is smarter than us - lets see what else he thinks he knows that we don't".
Introduction of "random checks" near the tollbooths that prove to have a significant enough number of "bounced" toll charges.
They have a photo of the car, driver and the license plate that "bounced" - they know who to stop. So, you either end up in some serious trouble for driving a car with fake license plates OR you don't get caught that time (cause you were not using them at the time) but you NEVER get the bright idea do that again.
Nowhere does that imply that they don't get vaccinations. They have a suspicion of art too, but that doesn't mean that they don't have it.
So what are you saying? That they are actually hypocrites? Maybe they also have TVs and the internet, and whores and blackjack but they hide it because of tourists?
The fact that they choose to live a dedicated faith-based lifestyle absolutely does not mean that they are oblivious to the reality of germs or anything else about the modern world.
No. Of course not.
The "dedicated faith-based" part just indicates cultural mental retardation. Going camping is fine and dandy - moving to a tent if there are alternatives... THAT is retarded.
And the fact that they are not oblivious but instead CHOOSE not to act to potential dangers of infectious diseases... Well.. to me that spells crazy and dangerous. More than for example a neighbor that makes pipe-bombs in his back yard on weekends. There is at least a chance that I will hear a loud bang when he finally fucks up - cause I may be far enough at the time. There is no bang when your cat or dog brings in the germs it picked up on its fur somewhere in the neighborhood.
If you have nothing against them, then why do you denigrate their culture?
*chuckle* No, no, no... You misunderstood. Let me repeat that, pointing out the key words.
I have ABSOLUTELY nothing against them or any other group of religious fanatics making themselves extinct
There are ways that you can say that you do not share their beliefs...
What can I say... I'm in my Australian period.
The Amish do not consider technology blasphemous
No. Just sinful. Cause if you start zipping your pants - oh man... You might as well just step up to the baby Jesus and pee in his face. Cause you are so hoch-and-mut, so why the fuck not?
it's highly unlikely that they are going to start killing their children.
A man can hope, can't he? Aaah... the good old days of religious fanatics that practiced human sacrifices. Religions used to come with such built in kill-switches. Huitzilopochtli and Tlaloc - where are you when we need you the most?
calling a people's culture a neurosis
Not all of it. Just the "god told us so" part. Talking to imaginary creatures - NOT a pinnacle of mental health.
One of the largest tenets of their belief system is humility. You would do yourself well to actually learn something from them.
Oh. I had classes about that in elementary school. Or more like short courses where my instructors would beat me up and take my money. Until I broke one's nose and nearly choked another before concerned citizens ripped me off of him. I was twice his weight and strength and about ten times more civil, humble and calm - but he was the neurotic fuck who tortured cats, bullied children and later in life stole things and raped girls only to eventually die in prison from an overdose.
Now, it took me couple of years to master it, but we can safely say that I know all there is to know about humility.
Now you've gone from intolerance to outright hatred.
I prefer the term - "violently dislike". It is a jedi thing. Master Yoda has this thing about hate being the path to the "dark side" and all... So, we violently dislike instead.
Then you are outright blaming them for an epidemic that hasn't happened yet.
No point in blaming someone AFTER he burns down your house is there? But when you see him dancing with a lit torch in hand around it - it might be prudent to say... yell at him to get the fuck away from your property.
The story of how polio came to this dairy farming community of 24 families, with 19th-century ways that include a deep-rooted suspicion of vaccination, is both a medical whodunit and a cautionary tale, suggesting that eradicating polio may prove far harder than anyone thought, even in the developed world.
It's been a while since I checked, but I'm pretty sure that that isn't any more accurate than saying that atheists worship Athe.
See... there is this thing called sarcasm. Only it is not really A THING... you can't take in your hand or anything... it is more like a concept...
I find it deplorable that you choose to target your wrath at the Amish - a group that just wants to be left alone to live as they please.
Yeah... pity their highly developed Amish powers do diddly-squat when it comes to those god's littlest things, which he, in his wisdom, had put upon this Earth. Don't get me wrong... I have ABSOLUTELY nothing against them or any other group of religious fanatics making themselves extinct by isolating their gene pool and forgoing such blasphemous technologies as vaccination or say... blood transfusion (gotta love 'em Jehovah's witnesses). Should they start to sacrifice their firstborns I would applaud with delight at their devotion to their neurosis.
But I have this little problem with those germs and viruses that inhabit them refusing to stick only to "the god's favorite people". Instead, they have this bad habit of lingering around, breeding, mutating, infecting other people... People who may be vaccinated against the original flavor of the germ but not to the New Improved Mutated VersionTM intended only for god's special people.
So you see... When it comes to infective diseases - I can't just "leave them alone".
The child with polio, "has an immune deficiency that makes her unable to rid her body of the virus, even with vaccination".
A perfect disease monkey to be placed among a bunch of non-vaccinated children, wouldn't you say?
Also, last time I checked, the Amish deity did not take up residence in the sky.
Right. Their Christian (as in Bible, virgin birth and zombie Jesus) god lives underneath a mushroom in the forest.
Which is probably the reason why he demands of them to avoid the "love (of) the world or the things in the world" and also tells them that "friendship with the world is enmity with God". They believe buttons and colorful shirts to be evil for fucks sake!
Of course, they ARE "chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people", so they probably know better than all those other "holy people" and "God's favorites" out there.
1. Scale it up to more nanogenerators so 1 hamster could easily power a red LED laser pointer which would be attached to it's wheel. 2. Attach a larger nanogenerator jacket to a cat. 3. Generate endless amounts of energy. 4. Profit.
Of course. Just like all those Pampers, Nivea, McDonald's, and nearly every commercial for candy ever.
Lets crucify them all, then burn them, then boycott their products, then rape their wives and pillage their villages and sell their children to slavery.
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Consumers don't care about apple rumors. They can't buy rumors.
The only care about what products are available. Only fanbois and panicky investors care about rumors (normal investors should be in it for the long haul anyway).
Apple's core consumers (no pun intended... also, a half decent name for a band) ARE fanbois.
And as for buying or selling rumors - read any blogs lately?
of course its flamebait, anytime someone points out thet the Earth changes temperature all on its own, the messenger gets shouted down... wouldnt want to ruin the scam now would we....
Now it is the Earth, not the Sun?
I thought it was "Sun's natural cycles" or something... But I guess it makes as much sense that it is actually this lump of rock that is regulating its own heat all by itself despite being around a huge ball of burning gas.
Well... I didn't pay attention to math there... Silly of me.:P
But as you yourself said it - it could have been $1000.
What could have happened is that each 'cashier' had a clone of each of the ~100 cards, and the attacks were co-ordinated close enough in time that the local limit monitoring was not updated quickly enough to reflect the other withdrawals.
Have you tried coordinating 3+ people to do something simultaneously? Disregarding possible quirks in the plan, such as the ATM already being in use during that time window (waiting for the window to open would be out of the question due to increased chances of being spotted) - it would be nearly impossible to time 130 people to do the withdrawals in SECONDS it would take the system to report them. And it is seconds - otherwise people could exploit that to have their cake and eat it to all the time. Pay for something over the internet AND withdraw the money at the same time and run.
The only compromised system here appears to be the Worldpay one, so this hypothesis is much more credible than the attacker(s) being able to lift the withdrawal limit across multiple bank systems in multiple countries.
I didn't say that anyone lifted the withdrawal limit - I said that they might have exploited a preexisting security flaw to replace the lowest banknote with the highest.
Which would run much smoother than using 100 cards at 130 locations at the same time. That is the SAME 100 cards at 130 DIFFERENT locations at the SAME time. To do that in 30 minutes it took them they would have to be inserting the cards, typing in PINs, typing in money amounts, getting the money, ejecting the cards - in 18 seconds or less. In perfect coordination with those other 130 "cashiers".
Just imagine them dancing if they could have pulled that off.
They've gathered all the flamebaits in a large pile and lit it on fire. They burn quite nicely. Then, they roasted some trolls on those flames. That was probably the only thing that got them through the winter.
Of course, they would have all died from cancer later from eating all that charred troll-meat but hey... it was 1700s. Life expectancy was around 37 years anyway back then.
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Read our related editorial: Uprooting Darwin's tree
IN JULY 1837, Charles Darwin had a flash of inspiration. In his study at his house in London, he turned to a new page in his red leather notebook and wrote, "I think". Then he drew a spindly sketch of a tree.
As far as we know, this was the first time Darwin toyed with the concept of a "tree of life" to explain the evolutionary relationships between different species. It was to prove a fruitful idea: by the time he published On The Origin of Species 22 years later, Darwin's spindly tree had grown into a mighty oak. The book contains numerous references to the tree and its only diagram is of a branching structure showing how one species can evolve into many. The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree. I believe this simile largely speaks the truth...
The tree-of-life concept was absolutely central to Darwin's thinking, equal in importance to natural selection, according to biologist W. Ford Doolittle of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Without it the theory of evolution would never have happened. The tree also helped carry the day for evolution. Darwin argued successfully that the tree of life was a fact of nature, plain for all to see though in need of explanation. The explanation he came up with was evolution by natural selection.
Ever since Darwin the tree has been the unifying principle for understanding the history of life on Earth. At its base is LUCA, the Last Universal Common Ancestor of all living things, and out of LUCA grows a trunk, which splits again and again to create a vast, bifurcating tree. Each branch represents a single species; branching points are where one species becomes two. Most branches eventually come to a dead end as species go extinct, but some reach right to the top - these are living species. The tree is thus a record of how every species that ever lived is related to all others right back to the origin of life....The green and budding twigs may represent existing species, and those produced during each former year may represent the long succession of extinct species
For much of the past 150 years, biology has largely concerned itself with filling in the details of the tree. "For a long time the holy grail was to build a tree of life," says Eric Bapteste, an evolutionary biologist at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, France. A few years ago it looked as though the grail was within reach. But today the project lies in tatters, torn to pieces by an onslaught of negative evidence. Many biologists now argue that the tree concept is obsolete and needs to be discarded. "We have no evidence at all that the tree of life is a reality," says Bapteste. That bombshell has even persuaded some that our fundamental view of biology needs to change.
So what happened? In a nutshell, DNA. The discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953 opened up new vistas for evolutionary biology. Here, at last, was the very stuff of inheritance into which was surely written the history of life, if only we knew how to decode it. Thus was born the field of molecular evolution, and as techniques became available to read DNA sequences and those of other biomolecules such as RNA and proteins, its pioneers came to believe that it would provide proof positive of Darwin's tree of life. The basic idea was simple: the more closely related two species
May I be so bold to suggest that there was no actual "hacking" taking place at all? By "hacking" I mean the stuff that movies and TV tells us that hacking looks like. A bespectacled nerd in his teens or early twenties, furiously typing something at his green and black screen filled with lines upon lines of scrolling text, uttering "Come on... come on..." until he suddenly "hacks the Gibson" and a welcome screen appears, upon which he jumps up yelling "YES! I AM INVINCIBLE!".
TFA tells us the following:
Here is the amazing part: With these cashers ready to do their dirty work around the world, the hacker somehow had the ability to lift those limits we all have on our ATM cards. For example, I'm only allowed to take out $500 a day, but the cashers were able to cash once, twice, three times over and over again. When it was all over, they only used 100 cards but they ripped off $9 million.
- known limit - $500 - 100 ATMcards used - $9 million gone
That comes out to about 90k per card, right?
Does anyone remember that little issue with Tranax ATMs from couple of years ago? It smells to me that something similar happened here. Someone leaving the ADMIN pass at 55555555 or 12345678. There was probably no need for hacking cards - they probably left the same limit. Instead, he/she/or it - just changed the codes for banknotes inside the machine.
So... you just tell the ATM that its 100s are 5s - and then repeatedly ask for 5s. $500 limit coughs up ~$100.000 +/- couple of earlier withdrawals that already left the machine a few 100s short.
In other words - about $90.000 per card.
The beauty of it?
Those suspects in the photos may be regular Joes and Janes who came later, found the machine giving 100s for 5s - and got caught on camera.
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besides even if the check was just by photo, surely you don't expect everyone that is willing to go to the trouble of using false plates to be dumb enough not to use the same plate as a car with equal color and model?
And I guess they will be wearing a paper mask that will make them look like the owner of the car they pretend that they are driving?
As for the checks...
Those would be done by police. Who are already employed patrolling the roads anyway.
You just displace them closer to the tollbooths and give them a heads up what to look for.
And those they catch driving with fake plates - they are getting a felony charge. Among other things.
So, to sum it up...
At no extra cost (not counting the one-time tollbooth charging and recording equipment costs) city fills up its purse much more efficiently AND gets an added bonus of extra fines, arrests and charges of all those "smart" individuals who think that it would be great to swindle the city out of couple of dollars.
Boy... are they going to be popular in prison.
Such problems may exist with roadside cameras - not tollbooths.
Why? Cause it is a gate.
Through which it is wise to slow down, and if you choose not to - they can just add a couple of speed bumps.
You were stopping up until now - now you just slow down a bit.
So multiple hi-res cameras can take photos of the car, both license plates, driver and the the inside of the vehicle.
Innocent people get to prove it is not them speeding AND if it starts to be a regular thing at certain tollbooths - you just introduce "random police checks".
Random as in "we have a photo of the car and the driver that thinks he is smarter than us - lets see what else he thinks he knows that we don't".
Introduction of "random checks" near the tollbooths that prove to have a significant enough number of "bounced" toll charges.
They have a photo of the car, driver and the license plate that "bounced" - they know who to stop.
So, you either end up in some serious trouble for driving a car with fake license plates OR you don't get caught that time (cause you were not using them at the time) but you NEVER get the bright idea do that again.
Nowhere does that imply that they don't get vaccinations. They have a suspicion of art too, but that doesn't mean that they don't have it.
So what are you saying? That they are actually hypocrites?
Maybe they also have TVs and the internet, and whores and blackjack but they hide it because of tourists?
The fact that they choose to live a dedicated faith-based lifestyle absolutely does not mean that they are oblivious to the reality of germs or anything else about the modern world.
No. Of course not.
The "dedicated faith-based" part just indicates cultural mental retardation.
Going camping is fine and dandy - moving to a tent if there are alternatives... THAT is retarded.
And the fact that they are not oblivious but instead CHOOSE not to act to potential dangers of infectious diseases...
Well.. to me that spells crazy and dangerous. More than for example a neighbor that makes pipe-bombs in his back yard on weekends.
There is at least a chance that I will hear a loud bang when he finally fucks up - cause I may be far enough at the time.
There is no bang when your cat or dog brings in the germs it picked up on its fur somewhere in the neighborhood.
If you have nothing against them, then why do you denigrate their culture?
*chuckle*
No, no, no... You misunderstood. Let me repeat that, pointing out the key words.
I have ABSOLUTELY nothing against them or any other group of religious fanatics making themselves extinct
There are ways that you can say that you do not share their beliefs...
What can I say... I'm in my Australian period.
The Amish do not consider technology blasphemous
No. Just sinful. Cause if you start zipping your pants - oh man... You might as well just step up to the baby Jesus and pee in his face.
Cause you are so hoch-and-mut, so why the fuck not?
it's highly unlikely that they are going to start killing their children.
A man can hope, can't he?
Aaah... the good old days of religious fanatics that practiced human sacrifices.
Religions used to come with such built in kill-switches.
Huitzilopochtli and Tlaloc - where are you when we need you the most?
calling a people's culture a neurosis
Not all of it. Just the "god told us so" part.
Talking to imaginary creatures - NOT a pinnacle of mental health.
One of the largest tenets of their belief system is humility. You would do yourself well to actually learn something from them.
Oh. I had classes about that in elementary school.
Or more like short courses where my instructors would beat me up and take my money.
Until I broke one's nose and nearly choked another before concerned citizens ripped me off of him.
I was twice his weight and strength and about ten times more civil, humble and calm - but he was the neurotic fuck who tortured cats, bullied children and later in life stole things and raped girls only to eventually die in prison from an overdose.
Now, it took me couple of years to master it, but we can safely say that I know all there is to know about humility.
Now you've gone from intolerance to outright hatred.
I prefer the term - "violently dislike".
It is a jedi thing. Master Yoda has this thing about hate being the path to the "dark side" and all...
So, we violently dislike instead.
Then you are outright blaming them for an epidemic that hasn't happened yet.
No point in blaming someone AFTER he burns down your house is there?
But when you see him dancing with a lit torch in hand around it - it might be prudent to say... yell at him to get the fuck away from your property.
concluding that a people that chooses to stay i
What makes you think they are unvaccinated?
Aaah... the long lost art of RTFA:
The story of how polio came to this dairy farming community of 24 families, with 19th-century ways that include a deep-rooted suspicion of vaccination, is both a medical whodunit and a cautionary tale, suggesting that eradicating polio may prove far harder than anyone thought, even in the developed world.
It's been a while since I checked, but I'm pretty sure that that isn't any more accurate than saying that atheists worship Athe.
See... there is this thing called sarcasm. Only it is not really A THING... you can't take in your hand or anything... it is more like a concept...
I find it deplorable that you choose to target your wrath at the Amish - a group that just wants to be left alone to live as they please.
Yeah... pity their highly developed Amish powers do diddly-squat when it comes to those god's littlest things, which he, in his wisdom, had put upon this Earth.
Don't get me wrong...
I have ABSOLUTELY nothing against them or any other group of religious fanatics making themselves extinct by isolating their gene pool and forgoing such blasphemous technologies as vaccination or say... blood transfusion (gotta love 'em Jehovah's witnesses).
Should they start to sacrifice their firstborns I would applaud with delight at their devotion to their neurosis.
But I have this little problem with those germs and viruses that inhabit them refusing to stick only to "the god's favorite people".
Instead, they have this bad habit of lingering around, breeding, mutating, infecting other people...
People who may be vaccinated against the original flavor of the germ but not to the New Improved Mutated VersionTM intended only for god's special people.
So you see...
When it comes to infective diseases - I can't just "leave them alone".
The child with polio, "has an immune deficiency that makes her unable to rid her body of the virus, even with vaccination".
A perfect disease monkey to be placed among a bunch of non-vaccinated children, wouldn't you say?
Also, last time I checked, the Amish deity did not take up residence in the sky.
Right. Their Christian (as in Bible, virgin birth and zombie Jesus) god lives underneath a mushroom in the forest.
Which is probably the reason why he demands of them to avoid the "love (of) the world or the things in the world" and also tells them that "friendship with the world is enmity with God".
They believe buttons and colorful shirts to be evil for fucks sake!
Of course, they ARE "chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people", so they probably know better than all those other "holy people" and "God's favorites" out there.
Up until the moment stupid people decide that imaginary man in the sky forbids it or that they just don't need it.
Hmm... Cuba Libre seems like a logical choice for this distros name.
James Bond has safely crashed that Iridium satellite into the Russian cold war doomsday device satellite somewhere over Siberia.
After that, he has as usual returned to having sex with female scientists that look like supermodels.
All is well with the world once more.
Those jackets probably keep hamsters safe while they jog at night.
Too many for any practical use as a weapon system.
Whales on the other hand...
Wristbands with multi-wire nanogenerators.
Slashdot alone could probably power a continent or two.
To power a red light LED.
And that is the basic single-wire nanogenerator.
1. Scale it up to more nanogenerators so 1 hamster could easily power a red LED laser pointer which would be attached to it's wheel.
2. Attach a larger nanogenerator jacket to a cat.
3. Generate endless amounts of energy.
4. Profit.
Why settle just for 1 when you can have 2 distro names from that.
Karma Kangaroo AND Whoring Wallaby.
One can be the server version and the other a portable.
Really, do the humans think they own everything in the whole damn solar system?
I don't see no tentacles or feelers raised to answer that question.
...If she is not able to code the entire Windows herself on a computer she built using nothing but soldering iron and some bubble gum wrappers.
Cause... how can we say it is "easy to use" unless she knows EXACTLY what happens with each keystroke she makes?
Doesn't this count as using child labour?
Of course.
Just like all those Pampers, Nivea, McDonald's, and nearly every commercial for candy ever.
Lets crucify them all, then burn them, then boycott their products, then rape their wives and pillage their villages and sell their children to slavery.
Pedophile Panda?
Sadistic Swan?
Terrorist Turtle?
Pirate Pinniped?
Homosexual Hippopotamus?
Republican Ram?
Lesbian Lobster?
Genocidal Gerbil
Transsexual Termite?
Homicidal Hummingbird?
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Consumers don't care about apple rumors. They can't buy rumors.
The only care about what products are available. Only fanbois and panicky investors care about rumors (normal investors should be in it for the long haul anyway).
Apple's core consumers (no pun intended... also, a half decent name for a band) ARE fanbois.
And as for buying or selling rumors - read any blogs lately?
of course its flamebait, anytime someone points out thet the Earth changes temperature all on its own, the messenger gets shouted down... wouldnt want to ruin the scam now would we....
Now it is the Earth, not the Sun?
I thought it was "Sun's natural cycles" or something...
But I guess it makes as much sense that it is actually this lump of rock that is regulating its own heat all by itself despite being around a huge ball of burning gas.
... a virus doing just that?
Well... I didn't pay attention to math there... Silly of me. :P
But as you yourself said it - it could have been $1000.
What could have happened is that each 'cashier' had a clone of each of the ~100 cards, and the attacks were co-ordinated close enough in time that the local limit monitoring was not updated quickly enough to reflect the other withdrawals.
Have you tried coordinating 3+ people to do something simultaneously?
Disregarding possible quirks in the plan, such as the ATM already being in use during that time window (waiting for the window to open would be out of the question due to increased chances of being spotted) - it would be nearly impossible to time 130 people to do the withdrawals in SECONDS it would take the system to report them.
And it is seconds - otherwise people could exploit that to have their cake and eat it to all the time.
Pay for something over the internet AND withdraw the money at the same time and run.
The only compromised system here appears to be the Worldpay one, so this hypothesis is much more credible than the attacker(s) being able to lift the withdrawal limit across multiple bank systems in multiple countries.
I didn't say that anyone lifted the withdrawal limit - I said that they might have exploited a preexisting security flaw to replace the lowest banknote with the highest.
Which would run much smoother than using 100 cards at 130 locations at the same time.
That is the SAME 100 cards at 130 DIFFERENT locations at the SAME time.
To do that in 30 minutes it took them they would have to be inserting the cards, typing in PINs, typing in money amounts, getting the money, ejecting the cards - in 18 seconds or less.
In perfect coordination with those other 130 "cashiers".
Just imagine them dancing if they could have pulled that off.
They've gathered all the flamebaits in a large pile and lit it on fire. They burn quite nicely.
Then, they roasted some trolls on those flames.
That was probably the only thing that got them through the winter.
Of course, they would have all died from cancer later from eating all that charred troll-meat but hey... it was 1700s.
Life expectancy was around 37 years anyway back then.
Of course, it was a sensationalist headline, but that's not quite the same as being disreputable.
Quite so...
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126921.600-why-darwin-was-wrong-about-the-tree-of-life.html
May I be so bold to suggest that there was no actual "hacking" taking place at all?
By "hacking" I mean the stuff that movies and TV tells us that hacking looks like.
A bespectacled nerd in his teens or early twenties, furiously typing something at his green and black screen filled with lines upon lines of scrolling text, uttering "Come on... come on..." until he suddenly "hacks the Gibson" and a welcome screen appears, upon which he jumps up yelling "YES! I AM INVINCIBLE!".
TFA tells us the following:
Here is the amazing part: With these cashers ready to do their dirty work around the world, the hacker somehow had the ability to lift those limits we all have on our ATM cards. For example, I'm only allowed to take out $500 a day, but the cashers were able to cash once, twice, three times over and over again. When it was all over, they only used 100 cards but they ripped off $9 million.
- known limit - $500
- 100 ATMcards used
- $9 million gone
That comes out to about 90k per card, right?
Does anyone remember that little issue with Tranax ATMs from couple of years ago?
It smells to me that something similar happened here. Someone leaving the ADMIN pass at 55555555 or 12345678.
There was probably no need for hacking cards - they probably left the same limit.
Instead, he/she/or it - just changed the codes for banknotes inside the machine.
So... you just tell the ATM that its 100s are 5s - and then repeatedly ask for 5s.
$500 limit coughs up ~$100.000 +/- couple of earlier withdrawals that already left the machine a few 100s short.
In other words - about $90.000 per card.
The beauty of it?
Those suspects in the photos may be regular Joes and Janes who came later, found the machine giving 100s for 5s - and got caught on camera.