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ATM Software Flaws Left Piles of Cash for Anyone Who Knew to Look (www.wired.com)

submitted 4 months ago by jeffw to c/technology

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[–] Lost_My_Mind 107 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Thats one of those things that makes you think "aw man!!! Why didn't I know???"

But realistically, if you had known you might walk off with a few thousand dollars, but somebody would have noticed. Then there would be an investigation.

Because if a poor person living in the projects dies of starvation? Oh, that's fine. That's a feature, not a bug.

But if a billion dollar bank is missing a few thousand dollars? That's cause to ruin someones life.

So in the end it's good you DIDN'T know. Because it's a big club, and you ain't in it.

[–] cybersandwich 27 points 4 months ago

They'd investigate the shit out of that but if someone broke into your house and stole your $2k TV they'd file a report and tell you to pay to change your locks.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Because if a poor person living in the projects dies of starvation? Oh, that's fine. That's a feature, not a bug.

What's "the projects" in this context? I'm not a native English speaker and have seen this used in similar contexts but I don't know what it means. Translation fails me, I know what the word means but it clearly has some different usage here.

[–] Waldowal 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

"The Projects" is a term used to describe government provided (or subsidized) housing for poor people. The term is generally used to indicate "a place in a city where income is low and crime is usually high".

[–] ChronosTriggerWarning 10 points 4 months ago

Ghetto. It's a flowery way to say ghetto.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

In UKese it’s “council estate “

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

It describes removing the hard drive in the article and patching it, doesn't sound like much of a real exploit to me. Yeah you probably shouldn't be able to patch it but isn't getting your hands on the physical hard disk much more of a problem.