Le 2010-11-04 05:18, Le_Forgeron a écrit :
> Le 04/11/2010 09:59, Invisible a écrit :
>> ...so what you're saying is that many ATMs are trivially hackable?
>
> That would be illegal (to crack an ATM), so it cannot happen.
>
> You are also assuming the ATM is directly on the internet... I hope they
> are just on a private network with better protection.
>
> For instance, the train ticket vending machine of my country used to be
> connected to the mainframe (or whatever that be, aka the mother system)
> via an X.25 connection. So, to connect to it to crack it, you would have
> needed to know its address (and it's far longer than 4 numbers ranging
> from 0 to 255), get an X.25 access yourself and hope it was not in a
> closed-group than your port as no chance to be in... Would you have been
> successful, the network operator would have got evidence against your
> port... not that you cannot have do it on a trojan-ed system.
>
> X.25 access being soon to be decommissioned (you cannot get new one, old
> ones are to be closed soon) by the main telecom operator here.

Those were probably X.25 over point-to-point links, or at the very least 
on a private network, not some available-to-the-public X.25 cloud.

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