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I saw an ATM reboot into XP kiosk mode the other week. Struck me as a bit unsafe? BTW this also exists or did exist for "Fix Windows Update on Windows XP, Vis

• giobox 3y ago
  It was pretty crazy how long IBM's OS/2 survived as an OS on tons of ATMs throughout the world, there will probably still be an ATM somewhere running XP in the 2050s.
• mschuster91 3y ago
  > Struck me as a bit unsafe? Usually ATMs run in their completely own network with heavy access controls limiting access even if the physical location is compromised.
• fredoralive 3y ago
  It’s not the greatest to be still using XP. Although hopefully an ATM would be on a real private network, or at least a VPN provided by some more up to date external box (though the latter could have its own bugs I guess). If you pair that with the fact you don’t have externally accessible general IO[1] there probably isn’t much opportunity to gain access. [1] If you can get into the innards you can probably just, you know, grab the cash (beware of dye bombs though).
• jaclaz 3y ago
  >I saw an ATM reboot into XP kiosk mode the other week. JFYI, there is a dedicated thread on MSFN.ORG for these sightings: https://msfn.org/board/topic/176692-windows-xp-spotter-the-club/ https://msfn.org/board/topic/176692-windows-xp-spotter-the-c... Atm's and public signage (airports, metro and similar) are still common enough.
• TheRealPomax 3y ago
  Safer than card skimmers though.