Forgot to reply to all so Dee's getting this twice. Sorry On Mar 1, 2017 5:25 PM, "o1bigtenor" <[email protected]> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 3:33 PM, Russell Reiter via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > IMHO Here's a link to a must see Defcon 24 video. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV_0k9Fh590 > > Modern Magstripe hacking & more. > > They're using iron oxide not ammonium dichromate as I related in an earlier > post but; refunding to a different credit card than the original one > charged. Can't wait to see how this one turns out. > > Does everything old become new again and if so how quickly does that happen? When it comes to computers I'm thinking somewhere between 5 and 10 years. In regards to a lot of other areas its seems like the head shift every 25 to 30 some years means that there is a lot of redoing because that research, from the early part of the previous cycle, has been forgotten! I like a quote from the video, paraphrasing ... behind every point of sale system, there is an obsolete operating system. So you gotta wonder, is it forgotten or conviently omitted? I call this the RANDdumb factor. Microsofts first security flaw was when Bill Gates lost the punch tape at the faire. I don't see that they've impoved on that layer of trust at all. Why should they, in confusion there is profit. Microsoft & partners are very, very profitable. Thats why what they really sell is a solution to a problem which they themselves created by coveting a market, instead of opening up standards to a higher level of knowledge and oversight. Russell Regards Dee
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