RE: Retail Terminal with NO Windows

http://www.computerwise.com/ethernet/ep310.html

Do you mean with something like this?

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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Yeung
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 1:26 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: 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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