On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Al Rowland wrote:
Or,
IIRC, the ATM system is similar to CC transactions. A best effort is made to authorize against your account (Credit Card or Banking) but if it fails and the transaction is within a normal range (your daily card limit) the CC/ATM completes the transaction.
So you're telling me that if I go to Kwik-E-Mart, cut the wires, put my card with a $0 balance in it will happily let me withdraw money? Somehow that doesn't sound right. How would it know my PIN, or would it assume I entered it correctly? How would it know my daily card limit? Charles
Best regards, ______________________________ Al Rowland
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Leo Bicknell Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 8:03 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Banc of America Article
FWIW:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57550-2003Jan28.html
"About 13,000 Bank of America cash machines had to be shut down. The bank's ATMs sent encrypted information through the Internet, and when the data slowed to a crawl, it stymied transactions, according to a source, who said customer financial information was never in danger of being stolen."
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