[web-heads] Breaking the bank

[Steve Lamont <spl@ncmir.ucsd.edu>]

[This requires a little more explanation than the usual posting.  Via
RISKS Digest -- spl]

  Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 21:24:44 +0100
  From: Lothar Kimmeringer <lothar@kimmeringer.de>
  Subject: A chess-playing "bankomat"
  
  In German banks you find more and more machines, where you can check
  your account's balance and do money-transfers. To be able to do
  this, there is a keyboard available instead of the 11+4 keys for the
  standard-cash-points.
  
  It seems that the program running on these machines is a simple
  window and that it's possible to get the underlying "desktop" with
  "clicking" (the screen is a touchscreen) onto the corresponding
  place where the minimize-icon resides. Thanks to the available
  keyboard it's possible to do everything you're used to do with every
  other computer with a shell.
  
  Somebody took the opportunity to play a little bit around with these
  machines and documented everything with a digital camera.
  
  The pictures can be watched at

	  http://www.ulm.ccc.de/projekte/bankomat/

  where the machine ends with a game of chess against itself running
  instead of the application originally intended to be run on it.
  
  Lothar Kimmeringer                E-Mail: spamfang@kimmeringer.de
  
  
  

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