[Gllug] Alan_Cox Banks UK not secure

[Alain Williams]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 01:12:02PM +0000, tet at accucard.com wrote:
> 
> >It allows you to generate card number and pin code and draw virtually
> >any amount of money without being caught . It is publish on the web
> >in the last hour but they didn't show the address !!!
> 
> FWIW:
> 
> 	http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/descrack/
> 
> It's not quite as drastic as it sounds, in that you need access to a
> genuine IBM cryptographic processor, which effectively means you need
> to work for a bank. Worrying, nonetheless, though.

In my time I have worked inside several banks. I have, without exception, found
their internal security to be cr*p.

-- 
Alain Williams

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