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The matching engine and the ring of servers around it are not accessible via internet. You can only connect to them if you have a server collocated in Carteret
by nonchalance 13y ago
The matching engine and the ring of servers around it are not accessible via internet. You can only connect to them if you have a server collocated in Carteret, and even then the NASDAQ machines only expose the ports relevant to order entry and feed data.
They could have hacked a customer (say, citigroup) and entered that way, but all they really could do is incur losses for the customer.
- jbert 13y ago> but all they really could do is incur losses for the customer. If they could inject "incorrect" trades, could they put themselves on the other side of those trades via normal means and so benefit from such losses?