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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ATM reprogrammed to disperse extra cash]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</guid><description><![CDATA[There wasn't necessarily any programming involved. All the article says is that he "defeated the security pass code". Maybe he just peeked over the repairman's shoulder and figured out how to get into the ATM's configuration screen.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2006 5:57PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ATM reprogrammed to disperse extra cash]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</guid><description><![CDATA[So, basically the guy robbed a bank.  Smart.<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2006 5:58PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ATM reprogrammed to disperse extra cash]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</guid><description><![CDATA[damn it, tell me his name! I live in Va Beach]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[money hungry]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2006 6:20PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ATM reprogrammed to disperse extra cash]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</guid><description><![CDATA[and that's why BETTER / UPDATED ATMs only dispense 20s =) (actually, don't most ATMs have cameras on the user from like 3 different angles? idk, just a guess)<br><br>not to mention the cost reduced in designing the dispenser unit... if you'd ever seen one, they weigh 50+ pounds for the single bill dispenser and they're pretty damn hard/costly to fix when broken.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[BeRoes3d]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2006 6:07PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ATM reprogrammed to disperse extra cash]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</guid><description><![CDATA[@Jeff:<br><br>Yes, but he also gave them a login time for the admin code, and therefore his bank number when he tried it out.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shadyman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2006 9:06PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ATM reprogrammed to disperse extra cash]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</guid><description><![CDATA["damn it, tell me his name! I live in Va Beach"<br><br>ahhhhh...me too! man, I gotta find this guy lol]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[pipdo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2006 6:33PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ATM reprogrammed to disperse extra cash]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</guid><description><![CDATA[Hehe, I manage to receive more money than was actually withdrawn from my bank account on one of my German bank's ATMs a few weeks ago. I actually got away with 100 Euros when I wanted 50. One bank note was actually folded behind the other, so the ATM didn't notice.<br><br>No need to tell you, I didn't tell my bank. (Isn't there even a card in Monopoly that says something like "bank error in your favour"?)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Christian]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2006 6:38PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ATM reprogrammed to disperse extra cash]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</guid><description><![CDATA[I think that a more appropriate word would be either "dispense" or "disburse," rather than "disperse."]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[david]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2006 6:40PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ATM reprogrammed to disperse extra cash]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</guid><description><![CDATA[This seems a lot better than getting free fake money:<br><a href="http://adverlab.blogspot.com/2006/07/atm-dispensing-fake-boob-bucks-money.html" rel="nofollow">http://adverlab.blogspot.com/2006/07/atm-dispensing-fake-boob-bucks-money.html</a>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Grantt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2006 6:53PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ATM reprogrammed to disperse extra cash]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</guid><description><![CDATA[Nice picture of a ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΠΕΙΡΑΙΩΣ (Piraeus Bank) ATM.  I recognized the logo of the Greek bank immediately.<br><br>Jason   ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2006 7:34PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ATM reprogrammed to disperse extra cash]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</guid><description><![CDATA[Awesome, reppin my hometown.<br><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2006 7:43PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ATM reprogrammed to disperse extra cash]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</guid><description><![CDATA[Gotta be a Diebold ATM; their voting machines are just as secure...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[3waygeek]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2006 8:40PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ATM reprogrammed to disperse extra cash]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</guid><description><![CDATA[What's hilarious is that it was NINE DAYS before someone told the clerks what the machine was doing.  hahahahaaha]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ken]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2006 8:57PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ATM reprogrammed to disperse extra cash]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</guid><description><![CDATA["Nice picture of a ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΠΕΙΡΑΙΩΣ (Piraeus Bank) ATM." <br><br>Or it could be their New York subsidiary, Marathon Bank.<br>Same logo, different community. (Anyone for a Mousaka in Astoria? Some guy from Virginia's inviting ;-)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sidepocket]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 14th 2006 12:54PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ATM reprogrammed to disperse extra cash]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</guid><description><![CDATA[wow, alot of hometown vabeachers on this site. yaay]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[beachbum]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 14th 2006 3:31AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ATM reprogrammed to disperse extra cash]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</guid><description><![CDATA[DISBURSE.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 14th 2006 6:23AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ATM reprogrammed to disperse extra cash]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</guid><description><![CDATA[Um, is this really programming or did the person filling the machine mistakenly switch the two bins of bills.  ATMs usually have two types of bills to give out (let's say $5 and $20).  If the clerk filling the machine is a bonehead and puts the wrong bills in the wrong place, you get the same result.<br><br>I know it happened to me.  Then the bank figured it out and deducted the difference straight from my account.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 14th 2006 9:45AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ATM reprogrammed to disperse extra cash]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</guid><description><![CDATA[Yet another Va Beach native here. Great to see our hometown getting some press :)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Day]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 14th 2006 11:14AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ATM reprogrammed to disperse extra cash]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/atm-reprogrammed-to-disperse-extra-cash/</guid><description><![CDATA[its a tranax 1500 and a keystroke combo lets you change dispensation amounts between 1, 5, 10 and 20, and if its a dual cassette machine (like in strip bars) you can tell it to dispense 40 bills, and 40 coupons (from 2nd cassette)instead of bills, so you change it from shooting out 20's to 1's, withdraw 40 from your pre paid atm debit card, and you got 800 and 40 "coupons" and you have another 800... i found the manual and did it to my buddies atm in his bar, it still had the default password of 555555]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[jason]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 12th 2006 2:49PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
