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Re:Cash machines robbed with infected USB sticks by walshemj on Monday December 30, 2013 @12:26PM (#6985593)
Why not its always private atm's (you know the ones with ripoff charges) at mom and pop stores that seem to be the ones getting hacked not ones embedded in the walls of a bank.

Making ATM's only available to organizations with a full banking license might help and some body define proper security standards Bruce Schenier's looking for a new job maybe he might want to take this on?

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Re:Cash machines robbed with infected USB sticks by DerpDerpDerp on Monday December 30, 2013 @12:37PM (#6985660)
I find it much more likely they'd skimp on hardening, the bad guys would still find ways to get them but white hats would have an extremely hard time working on the problem, and we'd be in an even worse situation.

Sort of like the problems we have right now with locks.

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Re:Cash machines robbed with infected USB sticks by walshemj on Monday December 30, 2013 @01:00PM (#6985814)
Well skimp on the hardening and the regulator shuts your atm network down - only have to do it the once.
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