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To: rlmorel
If you give physical access to nearly ANY computer, it can be hacked.

is an ATM a computer? I have physical access to them and so do hackers but other then tricks by having stupid users enter their pins and have their cards scanned by another computer I don't think ATMs are getting hacked even though we all have physical access to them.

I'm glad Apple doesn't make ATM security...the banks would go broke.

33 posted on 06/25/2010 2:00:31 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: for-q-clinton

Physical access means complete access to the machine. An ATM in a locked case isn’t easily hackable, but give a competent person the key and they can hack the machine.

Many ATMs run Windows and I’ve even seen a couple with the blue screen.


37 posted on 06/25/2010 2:10:52 PM PDT by MediaMole
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To: for-q-clinton

I said NEARLY any computer. But I’m sure you understood that. After all, we wouldn’t want to make ‘stupid’ statements about ‘unhackable’ computers, would we?


44 posted on 06/25/2010 2:56:09 PM PDT by rlmorel (We are traveling "The Road to Serfdom".)
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To: for-q-clinton
is an ATM a computer? I have physical access to them and so do hackers but other then tricks by having stupid users enter their pins and have their cards scanned by another computer I don't think ATMs are getting hacked even though we all have physical access to them.

No, not really. An ATM has a computer in it, but so do modern cars.

No you do not. The people who have actual access to the computers in an ATM usually carry guns and keys.

Having cards and PINs stolen or cloned is hacking the card not the ATM.

The closest thing to what can be done with and Iphone I have heard of. is someone backing a truck up to an ATM and pulling it from the wall and loading it into the truck. Once that happens an ATM is not secure either.

50 posted on 06/25/2010 4:46:13 PM PDT by NathanR (,)
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