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Tamperproof, yet playing Tetris.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Fri Jan 5 01:12:16 2007
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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 00:23:20 -0500
Handheld "Chip & Pin" terminals for reading credit cards in the UK are
required to be tamperproof to avoid the possibility of people
suborning them. Here is a report from a group that has not merely
tampered with such a terminal, but has (as a demo) converted it into a
tetris game to demonstrate that they can make it do whatever they
like.
http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/12/24/chip-pin-terminal-playing-tetris/
Perry
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