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Re: Retail Terminal with NO Windows

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
At first, I wondered if you were asking about attaching a magnetic stripe
reader to say a USB port on a Power System, running IBM i. I couldn't see
the point of that.

I think one of the issues that Larry brought up was that the breach
occurred at POS; meaning that the data was compromised before it ever
got to the back end. So it wouldn't have mattered how secure the back
end was. Therefore, if you *did* hook the stripe reader up *directly*
to the IBM i, that would eliminate Windows as an attack vector
completely. That would be the point.

Your model was:

The POS terminal is just a web browser, which runs on i/OS,
Android, Mac, Linux, in addition to Windows.

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

John Y.

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