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Very interesting, just installed the app they created. Going to be driving all over the northeast for the next few months. I wonder if I will find any skimmers.

• excalibur 9y ago
  This should be fun for a while, but don't expect it to last. If the persons producing these haven't seen this article yet, they will soon. Surely next batch will use a different ID and password, but additionally they could set the HC-05/1234 combo to do something nefarious when attempted. (Probably just put the skimmer to sleep for a while, so it won't be detected. The things they could potentially program it to do will be somewhat limited by the cost of additional components.)
  • moftz 9y ago
    The people installing these skimmers aren't the ones writing firmware for them. They have been mass produced in China and sold around the world. There might be a v2 in the works that works better or is more difficult to detect but people will still be buying the original version because it does the job and works well enough to get at least some cards before being found. It is similar to the OBDII reader chip, ELM327. Elm made a decent v1.0 release for their PIC-based ELM327 and forgot to lock down the firmware. Everyone then proceeded to make pirate clones of the reader. It is much easier to just keep producing the exact same chip/firmware combo than it would be to actually go back and decompile/write new code to add some stealth features that aren't going to make your new v2.0 sell any better over the cheaper than dirt v1.0.
• Scoundreller 9y ago
  Use the pump that's most obscure from the clerk for max risk/benefit!