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General Misc => Misc => Topic started by: Admin on November 22, 2009, 11:06:45 PM

Title: robot hacker skills were used for evil (the real kind)
Post by: Admin on November 22, 2009, 11:06:45 PM

Remember hearing in the news how scammers stole credit card numbers by modifying checkout machines? Look real careful at the image, and you'll see a SparkFun Bluetooth device hooked up to the UART of the checkout machine . . . clever . . . I applaud the police for tracking this down quickly. The second page has the news story.

http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorial/news/SparkFun-PINScam.pdf (http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorial/news/SparkFun-PINScam.pdf)

(http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorial/news/SparkFun-PINScam.jpg)

Title: Re: robot hacker skills were used for evil (the real kind)
Post by: SmAsH on November 22, 2009, 11:40:48 PM

 :o Not sparkfun! These must've been some smart cookies!

Title: Re: robot hacker skills were used for evil (the real kind)
Post by: Joker94 on November 23, 2009, 05:00:46 AM

It just goes to show, with the right knowlage you can do anything with electronics.