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Re:End of Windows XP support puts 95% of world's ATMs at risk by chrisBob on Thursday March 20, 2014 @11:00AM (#7435908)
Do ATMs get the updates anyway? If I had a computer that does one job, and connects to one network with one modem, I don't think I would put it on the internet just to get windows updates.

Does anyone know how this works, or if they actually get the security updates now?

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Re:End of Windows XP support puts 95% of world's ATMs at risk by jzwinck on Thursday March 20, 2014 @11:08AM (#7435961)
Right, you would mostly just want to deliver via your private network those updates related to user input. Vulnerabilities in file sharing, TLS, WEP, none of that will matter to an ATM. Oh, and perhaps an update to handle the year 2038 if you have a Unix backend. :)
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