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Checkout lines get longer

2007-01-07 14:19:16.676085+01 by meuon 1 comments

While the hack requires some major surgery, it's still a cool hack on a CC swipe term to make it play tetris.

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#Comment Re: made: 2007-01-08 04:03:31.440217+01 by: ebwolf

Interesting... I worked for a company that made both revisions to older VeriPhone blue boxes and a server system that handled incoming transactions for some of the big CC processors. The server system ran on a standard PC. I could have easily setup a box to receive and authorize transactions. Then, all I'd have to do is get the PBX at a big retailer to dial my number instead of the real number.

There are all kinds of spoofs like this one could pull. How 'bout a fake ATM at a c-store?

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