On 7/18/97 3:26 AM, Ryan Lackey said:
Does anyone know how open the Mondex architecture is? Is it in any way possible to set up a competing system with your own card manufacture and issuing bodies for currencies which can be used in deployed Mondex POS terminals without too much hassle? Would this be analagous to the problem of replacing InterNIC with other NICs -- you need to make the user servers know to look at the rival systems and understand their keys?
As I understand it, Mondex is a completely closed system. Everything that you don't absolutely need to know is undocumented. Since you can settle offline, the potential for fraud is frightening; unless I'm getting the benefit of these, um, weaknesses in the system, I don't want there to be any. The lack of privacy seems to be somewhat of a smokescreen; since you can settle offline, they don't have a really accurate way of tracking transactions except at the interface between e$ and other forms of money or goods (like their POS terminals and ATMs). Can you hack Mondex? They say you can't... Wesley Felter - wesley@binarycompass.com - Binary Compass Enterprises In BizRate we trust - <http://www.bizrate.com/> Disclaimer: My employer knows I'm crazy.