[Dailydave] http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=110889&ran=223062

[Dave Korn]

On 15 September 2006 12:43, Halvar Flake wrote:

> Somebody tell me that the stuff in the subject is
> a joke.
> 
> Cheers,
> Halvar


  Hmmf.  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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