<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">During 2008, I briefly amused myself with a price-checking terminal in a popular department store in the States whilst my wife was happily buying jeans that were on sale. Lacking a smart phone, I poked around the various menu option, the application halted and suddenly crashed. I suddenly found myself in a security hole where I could drop to a file explorer window. To my surprise, the device was running WIndows-Lite, a similarly primative OS. I could walk up and down the entire file tree, looking at the folder names. I could not see the contents but did have the odd privilege of making folders. From memory, I created a root level folder called “Please Secure Me”, took some souvenir photographs and departed when I was handed an armful of freshly purchased jeans.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I was trying to remember a remark that Harry Harrison once made about Stainless Steel Rats that live in technologically advanced civilisations.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 17 Apr 2015, at 12:42 pm, Mark <<a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" class="">mark@vceit.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Found in my travels. This is from 2014, which makes the story even more chilling in 2015.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><i class="">Banks everywhere are in a race against time to upgrade their ATMs before they become hot targets for hackers.<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">An estimated 95% of American bank ATMs run on Windows XP</b>, and Microsoft is killing off tech support for that operating system on April 8 [2014]. That means Microsoft (MSFT) will no longer issue security updates to patch holes in Windows XP, leaving those ATMs exposed to new kinds of cyberattacks.</i><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/04/technology/security/atm-windows-xp/" class="">http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/04/technology/security/atm-windows-xp/</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:12.6666669845581px" class="">>> Witty sig goes HERE <<</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Mark Kelly</div><div class="">mark AT vceit DOT com</div><div class=""><a href="http://vceit.com/" target="_blank" class="">http://vceit.com</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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