Re: Retail Terminal with NO Windows

Henrik,

This is much like what I was thinking. The only thing available to the user is the browser, nothing else.

Boot it up from the host every time so that the O/S cannot be compromised there.

There are of course still questions as have been brought up, such as there MUST be some O/S behind the browser. How locked down is that? All communications SSL. How does a pin pad or card reader interface to it?



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On 10/13/2014 2:12 PM, Henrik Rützou wrote:

here is an example on a browser based POS terminal based on a
tuch screen and with IBM I as the backend

sorry the text in is danish, but I think you understand the flow ...

http://powerext.com/shoecafe.mp4

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Roger Harman <roger.harman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

That's going to be a LOT of very LONG cables running to a really big USB
hub wherever the IBM box resides.

Or, a whole lotta IBM I boxes at the checkout lanes. Actually, I like
that idea <grin>.

Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 11:40:35 -0600
Subject: Re: Retail Terminal with NO Windows
From: nandelin@xxxxxxxxx
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx

And what Larry's saying, I believe, is that in your case, you have
i/OS, Android, Mac, Linux, and Windows as attack vectors.

Okay, so you're suggesting connecting the magnetic stripe reader directly
to an IBM i Power Server? Can't trust any OS on the front-end? What sort

of

UI requirements might a POS terminal support?

Nathan.
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