[HN Gopher] Why are McDonald's Self Service Kiosks so hackable?
       ___________________________________________________________________
        
       Why are McDonald's Self Service Kiosks so hackable?
        
       Author : ghuntley
       Score  : 4 points
       Date   : 2022-07-24 22:03 UTC (57 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (ghuntley.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (ghuntley.com)
        
       | witheld wrote:
       | If it's anything like American McDonald's those card readers
       | should be hooked up over the network- not USB. There shouldn't be
       | a trivial way to use them as card skimmers, the software loaded
       | on them, doesn't just like hand out card numbers it processes the
       | transaction.
       | 
       | Now, if they are hackable, and if they're networked, or if you're
       | in America, your target is the Ethernet ports strategically
       | hidden around the store. Look under and behind soda machines,
       | inside cabinets in the lobby used to store napkins and stuff,
       | randomly on the walls in the playplace etc
       | 
       | I don't know about skimming cards from those ethernet ports, but
       | you will have full access to the entire POS system which includes
       | ordering and business data and the backend server.
        
       ___________________________________________________________________
       (page generated 2022-07-24 23:01 UTC)