Re: [fw-wiz] How to Save The World
From: R. DuFresne (dufresne_at_sysinfo.com)
Date: 12/14/04
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To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 12:30:50 -0500 (EST)
[SNIP]
>
> It occurred to me at the time that the difficulty of doing Extremely
> Evil Things to the ATM networks of banks that use Windows based ATMs
> is far, far lower than that of the (theoretical) banks running
> something else on their ATMs. That implies, of course, that at some
> point someone is going to victimize the stupid banks, which will
> doubtless produce a scramble among them to use other, safer
> software. I suspect that such mass victimization alone will produce a
> change in their purchasing decisions.
>
Why would it cause the result you suspect, namely reconsidering the
decision to use a windows OS as the core? It has not done so for any
other major windows OS using entity? More likely it will be a quick fix
what cause the immediate issue and go back to 'normal', as is the norm
elsewhere...
Thanks,
Ron DuFresne
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