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		markdown on May 2, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Can’t Hack a Hacker: Reverse Engineering a Discove... > Cover your PIN with your hand This will not protect you from PIN overlays, but it will hide your PIN from hidden cameras. Plus it’s so easy to do, why wouldn’t you? Here in Fiji, ATMs have a an opaque plastic guard over the keypad to keep the pin out of view of a camera. Kinda like this one but bigger: http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/x/atm-keypad-22036137.jpg

chatmasta on May 2, 2016 [–]

If you read the article, so did this ATM. Except it wasn't a guard... it was a skimmer with a pinhole camera in it.

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