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Am I missing something here? Why is the whitehat installing something that can do malicious things instead of a mock?

Because people don't (want to) believe that they could have been pwned until they actually are pwned.

“Right now they’re actually flying people out to the stores to spot check and do penetration basis, but now with something like this you don’t have to travel.”

They send them out in jiffy bags to the regional branches, manager plugs one in, they can stay at head office and check the (branch) network. Saves money, provides hard data.

1) Send a small devise that's actually a box of rocks to bank that plugs into wall 2) Call bank, ask if they installed the box. 3) Save tons of money hiring people with overpriced gadgets. 4) Profit

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