Comment on Is there any open source ATM machine ?
9point6@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think there’re a few crypto based ones out there from when people were trying to make bitcoin in shops a thing, no idea if they’re even still maintained.
If you’re talking about a traditional ATM that hooks into a specific bank or interbank network, you’re not going to find a complete system, because the banks basically only want machines they (or partnered banks) own talking to their systems.
Depending what you’re interested in though, Linux based OSes seem to be becoming increasingly used, but there’s still probably a big majority running some form of windows (or funnily enough OS/2). And a quick Google has shown me the industry has seemingly actually worked out an SDK for talking to the ATM hardware that’s catching on, XFS4IoT. However the software written by the bank to implement that SDK and actually talk to the banking network is (and basically always will be) proprietary software.
LoveEspresso@cafe.coffee-break.cc 1 day ago
Okay, so the ATM is basically the bank’s own system.
It could even be a conglomerate related to finance ?
9point6@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah if it’s not owned by a bank, it will be owned by an institution that runs (or otherwise has access to) a proprietary interbank network. In most countries consumer financial services are super regulated legally, so everything gets locked down
Nurgus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s not the regulations, it’s the banks. They’re super paranoid, everything has to be proprietary. And at the same time their backends are all ancient and seriously decrepit. Which has to be kept secret and airgapped from the public.
forestbeasts@pawb.social 13 hours ago
I’d honestly trust an ancient decrepit system over a modern one, these days.
– Frost