I believe specific account data is not kept on the local machine. I may be wrong, not to mention the data strip on the card... Nothing new. Look at what happened to the Chicago Board of Trade a few years back. I wonder how WCOM reported the out-of-court settlement for that one their books. ;0 The original NSI SI, National-Security-Internet-(Survivable-Infrastructure), model was replaced years ago by the BBC, Best-Business-Case model, puns intended. Best regards, ______________________________ Al Rowland
-----Original Message----- From: alex@yuriev.com [mailto:alex@yuriev.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 9:47 AM To: Al Rowland Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: Banc of America Article
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.
Too bad it is not the case, but lets presume that it is. How does it explain branches not being able to process direct withdrawals either?
The incident on hand illustrates that the design of our financial networks is broken. If a non sophisticated worm managed to create so many problems, what is going to happen should a real attack be mounted against the networks used by financial services?
Alex