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Re: [Dailydave] http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=110889&ran=223062
From: Robert Clark <Robert.Clark () cern ch>
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 14:19:43 +0200
You can easily get the wrong notes from some english ATMs, the cassettes are the same size. A friend of mine works filling them up for Sainsburys, he got nobbled for putting the wrong notes in once, so its easily done.... Dave Korn wrote:
On 15 September 2006 12:43, Halvar Flake wrote:Somebody tell me that the stuff in the subject is a joke. Cheers, HalvarHmmf. It comes across as dubious at first sight, but if the guy did get some kind of engineer's access to the ATM, he could perhaps mis-program it as to which kind of bills were loaded into which columns/containers in the cash bay. (Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't all dollar bills the same size? This approach could not work in the UK where different denominations are of different sizes and need to be loaded into differently-sized cassettes which then automatically cue the machine as to the nature of the notes loaded into them). It also sounds like a garbled reference to 2FA - the swipe card would be a special engineer's identifier, and the "series of numbers" that he entered would not have been "breaking the code", but merely misusing a legitimate authority. I guess we need to see a more technical report before we can reach conclusions, but that's my attempt to read between the lines: it's not a joke, it's just what happens when a non-technical reporter attempts to cover a hi-tech crime story. cheers, DaveK
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