[Am-info] Windows to Power ATMs in 2005

[Fred A. Miller]

"What Microsoft actually sells to the banks for ATM use is a cut-down 
version of Windows that doesn't contain things like Web servers," said 
Ross Anderson, a researcher in Cambridge, England, and author of 
Security Engineering. "They have tried to cut out the unnecessary 
rubbish that clutters up the typical PC. How good a job they've done, I 
just don't know.... So we definitely can't rule out the possibility 
that someone in the future writes a Slammer-style worm that causes 
thousands of ATMs to start spewing out cash."

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,60497,00.html

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