Comment on Hackers Are Emptying ATMs with a Single Drilled Hole and $15 Worth of GearparentComments−monocasa9yI mean, there's chips that have that in their top metal layers, and there's still crazy people out there with electron microscopes and tiny pins that subvert them.https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20111124050620/http://www.f...I wouldn't be surprised if increased physical security on ATMS isn't worth the practical difference in losses.−mjevans9ySure, someone COULD do that, but how long and how fiddly is that process? How big of a risk is there to disrupting internal components.What if you sandwich the sensitive layer as a thin mesh encased in weak resin between two metal plates?The point of security isn't absolute, but to ruin the risk + effort vs reward balance.
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I mean, there's chips that have that in their top metal layers, and there's still crazy people out there with electron microscopes and tiny pins that subvert them.
https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20111124050620/http://www.f...
I wouldn't be surprised if increased physical security on ATMS isn't worth the practical difference in losses.
Sure, someone COULD do that, but how long and how fiddly is that process? How big of a risk is there to disrupting internal components.
What if you sandwich the sensitive layer as a thin mesh encased in weak resin between two metal plates?
The point of security isn't absolute, but to ruin the risk + effort vs reward balance.