Amazing! That's the combination on my luggage!
 

If You Own An ATM, You Probably Want To Change The Default Password

from the 123456-really-isn't-very-secure dept

Nearly two years ago, we posted a story about how easy it was to find the user manuals for certain automatic teller machines online, and then use the default passwords listed in them to reprogram the machines so they'd give out $20 bills when they thought they were giving out $5s or $1s. The fix for this was easy -- change the default passcode -- but apparently it wasn't hard to find machines whose owners' hadn't changed them.




http://techdirt.com/articles/20070712/174744.shtml

This is absolutely brilliant. Seriously - I'm in awe, and kind of pissed I didn't think of it first . . .

having worked at a bank and being one of 8 people to fill up our atm, we always did some half-azz passcode. we had so many people come and go that it was too much work to change it. now that they have new ones, we had to do a letter/number combo that changed every 30 days...it truly sucked.