As a world traveler this would be my greatest nightmare....

[Ben Scott]

On 8/15/07, Thomas Charron <twaffle at gmail.com> wrote:
>   They got lazy tho, if they'd used XP Embedded proper (it's just XP
> Professional with modules removed), then they'd have removed Winlogon,
> boot screen, etc.

  XP Embedded does grant you more control over things, but even XP Pro
lets you do more than they are apparently doing.  You can change the
boot logo on XP Pro, for example.  Did you notice that the ATM's "Out
of service" message is apparently just the desktop background
(wallpaper)?  You can see the Task Bar and Start Button at the edge.
And from the description and photos, it sounds like the OS isn't
crashing (no BSOD), it's the application aborting and triggering a
restart.  And the PC is using a generic whitebox BIOS (Phoenix, I
think).  So it all looks like something done on the cheap, prolly by
people who don't know what they are doing.

  Also, to respond to something in the blogger's remarks: From what
I've been told, most ATMs used to run OS/2, not *nix.  I can easily
believe that, as banks have always been big IBM customers.

-- Ben