Yeah - but it's lot of trouble to compromise one card. A lot easier to look over someones shoulder for the PIN and then nick the card......
Posts by G_R
11 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Oct 2013
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You can play Flappy Bird on a POINT OF SALE TERMINAL
Tuesday 8th April 2014 14:18 GMT
Flappy Bird
@ stucs201 - surely a critical point is that there is only one key used, the Enter key. That is not a security critical key. Unless I'm missing something (please jump in...) there is no compromise of the rest of the keypad. So there is no way to capture PINs - at least not from the keypad. Being able to play Flappy Bird is very nice and fun and I'm sure the MWR guys had a blast doing it, but a real security vulnerability, I can't see one here...?
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Your kids' chances of becoming programmers? ZERO
The Raspberry Pi: Is it REALLY the saviour of British computing?
Monday 28th October 2013 17:52 GMT
Re: Language not platform
Indeed not - but I don't want the hassle of doing it....and my point was that a BBC Micro user didn't have the hassle of doing it either. Really BASIC was just an example - the Pi (to me at least, and ok I was brought up with a D2 kit and assembler (ahem...that is, a while back...)) is a bit of a faff to get going as a programming environment as it is shipped......
Monday 28th October 2013 14:58 GMT
Language not platform
I would argue that the thing that made computers like the BBC Micro and Commodore PET accesible was the BASIC interpreter. Power the machine up and pow - you can start coding immediately, run the code and see what happens. It doesn't do what you want, fiddle with some lines and run it again. When you are just starting out that's what you want to do - get stuck in and working.
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