{"id":186449,"date":"2014-01-18T21:41:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T02:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/01\/18\/time-to-go-back-to-using-a-bank-teller\/"},"modified":"2014-01-18T21:41:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T02:41:00","slug":"time-to-go-back-to-using-a-bank-teller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/01\/18\/time-to-go-back-to-using-a-bank-teller\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to Go Back to Using a Bank Teller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Am I the only one who is concerned about the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2014\/01\/16\/95-of-atms-are-still-using-windows-xp-no-really\/\">95% Of ATMs Are Still Using Windows XP<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Who is still using Windows XP, an operating system which is now twelve years old? Other than \u201ceveryone\u2019s mom,\u201d the real answer might not be as obvious: the nation\u2019s network of automated teller machines. ATMs all contain computers, of course. Computers are susceptible to malware. Systems running Windows XP may be more susceptible to malware after April 8 of this year, when Microsoft finally ends support and security patches for XP.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Don\u2019t worry: it\u2019s unlikely that the machines will start setting your savings account on fire anytime soon. Yet it boggles the mind to learn that 95% of ATMs in the world run on Windows XP. Still. That number won\u2019t decrease very much after the deadline: one expert told Bloomberg Businessweek that maybe 15% would be upgraded by the deadline. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We are completely f%$#ed.<\/p>\n<p>Has anyone considered secure BSD?&nbsp; It&#8217;s free, and it&#8217;s, you know, not the Petri dish for security exploits that is Microsoft&#8217;s operating systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Am I the only one who is concerned about the fact that 95% Of ATMs Are Still Using Windows XP? Who is still using Windows XP, an operating system which is now twelve years old? Other than \u201ceveryone\u2019s mom,\u201d the real answer might not be as obvious: the nation\u2019s network of automated teller machines. ATMs &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1060,1004,982,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-finance","category-stupid","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}