All of your slightly informed ranting on ATMs is very amusing. Once you realize an ATM is not a corporate desktop, is not connected to the Internet, performs a very specific function, and lives on an isolated network, is very closely monitored and has law enforcement response in minutes, the concern over what OS is running should no longer keep you up at night.
In the real world, security nirvana is not possible. ATMs, believe it or not are not profit making devices. They exist for the convenience of the customer, so the budget avaliable to bulletproof them is not infinite. The regulators have also examined the security risk and are not in a big hurry to force banks to make them more secure. So before you condemn ATM technology, get more information on the system from end to end and you might be surprised at what controls mitigate what risks. On 3/18/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:02:57 EDT, der Mouse said: > > > Only to the extent that they choose to stick themselves with them. If > > banks were to grow balls enough to start issuing RFPs specifying no > > Microsoft operating systems, I'm sure there would be suppliers happy to > > cooperate. > > Anybody care to send the CIO of said banks a sample of Scott's Cojones-Grow? > > Or maybe people *are* sending them, but the bank's e-mail filter is blocking > e-mail about ball fertilizers as "male enhancement" spam... > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
