Friday, May 17, 2013

An Imprisoned Hacker Invented an ATM Attachment That Stops Skimmers

Valentin Boanta has a lot of free time on his hands—five years worth, to be exact. That's because Boanta is currently serving a prison sentence for, according to Reuters, "supplying gadgets to an organized crime gang used to conceal ATM skimmers." So with all that time to think about what he's done, the apparently penitent prisoner spent six months developing an ATM add-on to prevent the exact crime that put him there in the first place.

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Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/0JqwSqhq0tA/an-imprisoned-hacker-invented-an-atm-attachment-that-st-508232101

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