| ATM shim hack |
[Thu, 19-Feb-2004 2:03 PM] |
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No doubt you've heard about people fitting their own fake card readers onto ATMs in order to capture card info; here are some pretty good pictures of one. It reads the info off the card, and captures your password by pointing a camera at the keypad! It then wirelessly transmits this info to the crooks, so they don't even need to go back and retrieve the gear! Pictures here (with captions in some strange moon-man language.) Worse pictures here (but in English.) 
   
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Everyone has a talent. Some people can sing, some can write flawless code, and some are geniuses when it comes to dreaming up new ways to rip people off...
This reminds me of that thing John Connor had in Terminator 2. When I was a kid and saw that movie for the first time, I thought, "Wow, I want one of those!"
From: ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) uon
Thu, 19-Feb-2004 2:41 PM (UTC)
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This reminds me of that thing John Connor had in Terminator 2It was an Atari Portfolio, quite a neat little machine. There were a couple of programs around to let the hard-of-scripting print lots of numbers scrolling down the screen, just like the ATM-cracking scene in the film; the hard part is the Portfolio-to-bankcard interface..
![[User Picture]](http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/348023/248731) | From: nester
Thu, 19-Feb-2004 2:47 PM (UTC)
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looked like BASIC to me.. good times.. now on to ebay to find my portfolio to bankcard interface plans.
"Build at home with only household materials! Check my feedback and bid with confidence!!!!!!11"
![[User Picture]](http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/61952368/999176) | From: boggyb
Fri, 20-Feb-2004 6:55 AM (UTC)
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I had one of those once upon a time. The bits of it are still somewhere (the screen gave out on me - cable probably broke). I used it for a fair bit, and it got bashed around a fair amount (as in dropping my bag with it in the front pocket about two metres).
That's Dutch.
("Nederlands")
![[User Picture]](http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/33312529/1394158) | From: kehoea
Fri, 20-Feb-2004 12:06 AM (UTC)
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They speak Dutch on the moon? Wow. So are Holland and Flanders settlements of the moon, or vice-versa? I can't imagine anyone learning it as a second language.
My husband's Dutch and as soon as he applied for his green card the US government starting referring to him as an ALien.
If the US government's lable isn't proof enough that these people aren't from earth I can tell you from first hand experience that being from another planet is the only way to explain some of the stuff he does ;)
![[User Picture]](http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/4448124/975919) | From: gregv
Thu, 19-Feb-2004 5:58 PM (UTC)
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Wow, ordered dithering! I thought I was using Windows 3.1 on my 486 for a second there.
You've gotta love the way the pictures on the English site are about three times the file size and 1/3 the quality of the Dutch(?).
![[User Picture]](http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/7746717/1353119) | From: brainyb
Thu, 19-Feb-2004 10:20 PM (UTC)
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I saw this in an indy French film once...
Saw what? Poor image compression? (If you can call that compression.) Pictures of an ATM seemingly taken by a souped-up GameBoy Camera?
Thanks for this. There's been a spate of these scams over here, apparently all operated by everyone's favourite criminal group, "Them Nigerians" or, depending on your taxi driver's biases, "Them Eastern Europeans". While I had no doubt that people were being scammed, none of the newspaper reports had any detail on how it was being done.
![[User Picture]](http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/66879564/2107237) | From: exiledbear
Fri, 20-Feb-2004 6:32 AM (UTC)
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Het is Nederlands (Dutch). It is a maddening language to learn - I can read it and listen to it, but I can't speak it yet. I'm not sure I like the strange ways my mind is warping from learning Dutch, but hey, it needs the exercise.
To be honest, Dutch isn't too far from English, and if the French hadn't invaded England, some linguists claim that Dutch and English would be a lot more similar than they are right now.
![[User Picture]](http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/170610/129769) | From: madeleine
Fri, 20-Feb-2004 8:03 PM (UTC)
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The trick to learning Dutch is to think back to how Yoda talked in Star Wars. "Then the language easy becomes" ;)
![[User Picture]](http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/11264610/1989339) | From: roterkater
Sun, 22-Feb-2004 1:37 PM (UTC)
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or if those crazy romans hadn't spoken latin there for Xnumber of centuries...
The thieves copy the cards and use the PIN numbers to withdraw thousands from many accounts in a very short time directly from the bank ATM.
PIN number, my favorite tautology. Other than that yikes! Someone's gone to the trouble of injection molding the magnetic reader to be just the right shape. That ain't cheap and easy.
![[User Picture]](http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/73381615/1618753) | From: nzchrisb
Mon, 23-Feb-2004 7:25 PM (UTC)
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From: didone
Wed, 29-Dec-2004 3:42 PM (UTC)
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hello do you know where can i buy that thing for atm? please mail me at didone@gmail.com thank you.didone
![[User Picture]](http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/5887295/515656) | From: jwz
Wed, 29-Dec-2004 3:49 PM (UTC)
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Did your parents have any children who lived? | |
