A lot of ATMs are actually Windows PCs with a full-screen banking app, and those apps can and do crash from time to time. A few weeks ago I came across a donat

A lot of ATMs are actually Windows PCs with a full-screen banking app, and those apps can and do crash from time to time. A few weeks ago I came across a donation kiosk for a charity, installed in the cafeteria of a newly built highway service station. The donation app had apparently crashed, leaving the machine with vanilla Windows 7. Some kids managed to start MS Paint and were busily drawing squiggles on the touchscreen. If you started IE instead and visited a website with a drive-by download, you could have easily installed a backdoor on it.