Not sure if this is big news or not, but I wonder what Steve Gibson and the Twit crew think of so...

[G+_Josh Frye]

Not sure if this is big news or not, but I wonder what Steve Gibson and the Twit crew think of something like this.

 

Originally shared by Josh Frye

 

A company is looking to replace the windows clients in ATMs with a cloud connected android thin client. I see the point in this would speed up the installation of patches and other security updates. And I do use cloud software, but this is one of those changes I want to see out in the wild for awhile, getting hit by hackers, before I ever use it. (Mainly because it seems such a new concept in the ATM world.)

 

http://www.itworld.com/article/2910415/dont-look-now-but-atms-are-about-to-get-a-cloud-makeover.html?phint=newt%3Ditworld_cloud_computing&phint=idg_eid%3D18e4420415abbffd5f3a67d2bceef4d6#tk.ITWNLE_nlt_saas_2015-04-22

http://www.itworld.com/article/2910415/dont-look-now-but-atms-are-about-to-get-a-cloud-makeover.html?phint=newt%3Ditworld_cloud_computing&phint=idg_eid%3D18e4420415abbffd5f3a67d2bceef4d6#tk.ITWNLE_nlt_saas_2015-04-22

[G+_Ned Jeffery]

Huh, isn't an ATM already connected to the cloud by definition? This is just about window dressing. ?

[G+_Josh Frye]

My understanding that most of the processing and programing are done on the ATM itself now, but they do call home to check accounts and to report transactions. But I am not a expert on ATM systems by any means.