At 03:23 PM 1/25/2003 -0800, Patrick wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Christopher J. Wolff wrote:
Does this mean that BofA ATM's are SQL based or that BofA is running ATM traffic through some kind of internet VPN? Perhaps they just plug the ATM's into any connection and pass cleartext transactions over the internet? This is very suspicious, IMHO.
At $previous_employer half the connections to the various banks they had were via VPN.
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