| Diebold - yes, the company that made e-voting machines for the presidential election, and makes ATM's - has apparently commmitted itself to continuing using MS Windows as its core OS platform. Check these out:
DieBold ATM running Windows Media Player. Apparently this isn't difficult to do. It should be IMPOSSIBLE to do. Windows itself isn't necessarily the problem. It's Diebold's incompetency at securing the windows platform that is the problem. The only thing that is a problem inherent to windows is that on a single-purpose machine such as an ATM, there is no purpose to have ANY application other than the primary user interface application. Windows does not make it IMPOSSIBLE to exit that application as would be possible on other platforms, so all it takes is somebody with a little know-how to break the app, make it crash and baddabing, badda-boom: "access granted." Stupid, stupid stuff. The least DieBold should do is invest in the professional XP Embedded courses that teach developers how to do this crap correctly.
Here's another crash: http://unworkable.org/diebold/
And another: http://broken.typepad.com/b/2004/08...unning_win.html
Nothing like instilling confidence in your customers!
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