[Am-info] Fwd: [IP] For your amusement: Broken ATM

[Erick Andrews]

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 21:17:22 -0500, Gene Gaines wrote:

[...]

>>
>>From: Carla Geisser <cgeisser@andrew.cmu.edu>
>>Subject: For your amusement: Broken ATM
>>
>>A Diebold ATM in Baker hall just crashed, and dropped to a Windows XP
>>desktop.
>>
>>Several intrepid students started Windows Media player, and it was playing
>>a variety of music with a nice visualizer.
>>
>>So much for security...
>>
>>Photos:
>>http://www.coed.org/photodb/folder.tcl?folder_id=3334
>>
>>Movies (with audio):
>>http://yogi.pdl.cmu.edu/~cgeisser/photos/
>>
>>- Carla
[...]

>Gene 
>gene.gaines@gainesgroup.com

That's really funny!  Looney tunes.  Only on Windows!

I've heard and read the past year or so that several banks
have moved to Windows to run their ATMs.  Let's see,
how long have ATMs been around?  Most have always
run on OS/2 without the GUI which supported the ATM
application...just simple, lean and robust.

You never heard of such a 'security' issue then.  Serves
them right!  What's next?  A 'denial of money' attack?

Now I'll have to ask my bank what they run their ATMs on.
If it's Windows, I'll start using a real teller.

Erick Andrews