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

[Robert Clark]

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,
>> 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
>