Windows Jackpot!

[saahne]

Someone's found a reason to live Windows:

Flaw Opens ATMs to Hackers

Barnaby Jack, a security researcher at the computer networking giant Juniper, had planned to hack into an automatic teller machine (ATM) live onstage at the Black Hat Security Conference in Las Vegas later this month. But his presentation, designed to demonstrate the insecurity of various ATMs, attracted the attention of the financial industry as well as security professionals, and under pressure from ATM manufacturers, Juniper canceled the presentation last week, citing concerns that the vulnerabilities involved had still not been fixed....The presentation would have focused on exploiting vulnerabilities in devices running the Windows CE operating system, including some ATMs, according to a source familiar with the details.

[saahne]

No editing! I meant to say reason to love windows; not live Windows.

[Confuseling]

'Leave' would also have worked.

[hito_kiri]

Hmmm, so the only players in the ATM OS market are MS and IBM OS/2?

hito kiri wrote:
> Hmmm, so the only players in the ATM OS market are MS and IBM OS/2?

i think it used to be about 99% OS/2...and, i guess it will return to
that now....or maybe Linux/BSD/OSX ;-)

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brassy

[john_hudson]

An ATM near me crashed and showed the standard DOS screen. So I pressed a couple of keys and, lo and behold, an ancient version of Windows started loading.