Posts by BenWilson
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It's a horrible acronym anyway - here's some things it already does stand for:
Mass Storage Device
Male Sexual Dysfunction
Musculoskeletal Disorder
Master Slave Determination
Multiple Site Damage
Minimum Safe Distance
Mean Sac Diameter
Marble Spleen Disease
Moderate to Severe Disabilities
Motor Speech Disorder
Major System Demonstrationand my favorite as most appropriate for the moment
Mississippi School for the Deaf
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Neil Graham,
If I remember correctly the appropriate protocol had not been triggered when the machine was cleared but the bank said they were confident that they would have noticed it soon. The money had cleared and could be withdrawn.
Classic. So the protocol wasn't "someone opened the envelope to see if it contains money"?
I'm sure it would have been noticed soon, because you can't have money not balancing up on a periodic basis. But the window of opportunity was at least a day wide, during which multiple withdrawals on the same machine were possible (that is what he did). He could have cleaned out every ATM in the city. He had opened the account in a false name, too. In fact, that was the joke that gave him to confidence to try it - the teller hadn't even batted an eyelid at a kid calling himself "Arizona Sunset"? I'm still amazed he didn't get any punishment at all, other than his parents yelling at him. I guess the fact that he turned himself in before they even knew it had happened, coupled with how embarrassing for them the facts actually were, was why.
Which is what makes me think no charges will find our intrepid whistleblowers this time. I highly doubt MSD really wants a blow by blow account in court of just how poor their security really was.
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OnPoint: The Source, in reply to Ana Simkiss,
Yes, particularly when there's an alarming bustling in your hedgerow.
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WTF? Two paths Bennet can go by? I think her shadow may already be taller than her soul.
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OnPoint: The Source, in reply to Russell Brown,
The worst part is I'm pretty sure you guys aren't even high.
The internet, man. It's a gateway drug.
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to nzlemming,
Well, that's the first time I've heard someone actually claim to have been there, I'll admit.
Yeah, you're right, it's a foolish thing to talk about on the internet, even 26 years after the fact, with the bank no longer in existence.
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OnPoint: The Source, in reply to Emma Hart,
Quite distinct from inplementing you. One is in the but, the other the and.
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OnPoint: The Source, in reply to nzlemming,
<applauds>
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OnPoint: The Source, in reply to Russell Brown,
That was brilliant.
Yes, only Emma could insult someone by having sex with them.
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OnPoint: The Source, in reply to Emma Hart,
Oh. I see your point.
I used to belong to ACT u c ;-) I know how they think....they ain't called Randroids for nuthin'
ETA: Oh crap that has innuendo I didn't compute, er... mean.
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