Author Topic: EEVblog #687 - EFTPOS PIN Pad Terminal Teardown  (Read 30455 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline mbendzick

  • Newbie
  • Posts: 8
Re: EEVblog #687 - EFTPOS PIN Pad Terminal Teardown
« Reply #50 on: December 01, 2014, 07:07:07 pm »
I'm thinking the big gold-plated pour on the first board shown in the unit is the lid to the fence on the next board down that didn't have a lid of its own.  Clever bit of shielding if you can get good gasketing between them.
 

Offline hamdi.tn

  • Frequent Contributor
  • **
  • Posts: 623
  • Country: tn
Re: EEVblog #687 - EFTPOS PIN Pad Terminal Teardown
« Reply #51 on: April 28, 2015, 10:19:03 pm »
i got this terminal for like 5$ and i said it will be good to open it and compare anti-tamper mechanism with the terminal dave show in the video.

 

Offline hamdi.tn

  • Frequent Contributor
  • **
  • Posts: 623
  • Country: tn
Re: EEVblog #687 - EFTPOS PIN Pad Terminal Teardown
« Reply #52 on: April 28, 2015, 10:22:02 pm »
once opened it's a two board construction, one attached to the upper part of the case , the second board is to the lower part of the case.
No obvious anti-tamper here, and the back up coin cell is directly exposed ... this no good as protection i guess


« Last Edit: April 28, 2015, 10:25:27 pm by hamdi.tn »
 

Offline hamdi.tn

  • Frequent Contributor
  • **
  • Posts: 623
  • Country: tn
Re: EEVblog #687 - EFTPOS PIN Pad Terminal Teardown
« Reply #53 on: April 28, 2015, 10:28:08 pm »
there is a missing part when i bought the thing, i guess some program card or something that go in there cause the unit say software missing when powered-up
 

Offline hamdi.tn

  • Frequent Contributor
  • **
  • Posts: 623
  • Country: tn
Re: EEVblog #687 - EFTPOS PIN Pad Terminal Teardown
« Reply #54 on: April 28, 2015, 10:29:49 pm »
And here an anti-tamper identical to dave's terminal.
 

Offline hamdi.tn

  • Frequent Contributor
  • **
  • Posts: 623
  • Country: tn
Re: EEVblog #687 - EFTPOS PIN Pad Terminal Teardown
« Reply #55 on: April 28, 2015, 10:33:41 pm »
Other photographs to show the thing, processing and stuff , if anyone is curious about some detail tell me  :)
 

Offline hamdi.tn

  • Frequent Contributor
  • **
  • Posts: 623
  • Country: tn
Re: EEVblog #687 - EFTPOS PIN Pad Terminal Teardown
« Reply #56 on: April 28, 2015, 10:34:47 pm »
other pic
 

Offline hamdi.tn

  • Frequent Contributor
  • **
  • Posts: 623
  • Country: tn
Re: EEVblog #687 - EFTPOS PIN Pad Terminal Teardown
« Reply #57 on: April 28, 2015, 10:35:32 pm »
and other
 

Offline SeanB

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 16272
  • Country: za
Re: EEVblog #687 - EFTPOS PIN Pad Terminal Teardown
« Reply #58 on: April 29, 2015, 09:01:22 pm »
Did one, and still have another to take to pieces. There are a lot of battery backed microprocessors in there, everything including the printer and modem has one. Also has some nice crypto chips in there, but I cannot decap them to look, though if there is anybody who can I can send a few out of payphones for then to open.
 

Offline BezITAD

  • Contributor
  • Posts: 15
  • Country: au
Re: EEVblog #687 - EFTPOS PIN Pad Terminal Teardown
« Reply #59 on: October 08, 2019, 08:41:32 am »
I am sorry to bump this one up, but I had an important question to ask in regards to this specific teardown. If this is the wrong place to ask, feel free to delete.

So, my question, is:

If an eftpos terminal were to be grinded up for decommission, would the airborne dust or the smoke caused by spot fires resulting from internal lithium batteries inside such units be dangerous to someones health?

Background:
For 3.5 years I worked for a company that did computer recycling. My role at the company was equipment testing, documentation and data wiping. However, for the last 1 year of my employment at this company, they rolled a larger shredding machine into the building, placed it next to my work bench, and decided to grind up eftpos terminals inside it. Many of these were the newer wireless models which contained battery packs plus an internal battery.

On any given day when the machine was in operation, the entire building was full of smoke, the fumes from the lithium was incredibly disturbing. So, I am interested in a bit of feedback, the units contain a lot of different things, the key chip is surrounded in a lattice of ceramics to avoid reverse engineering. I am told this key is programmed in a highly secure room and that all eftpos machines need to have this element destroyed before disposal.

The current:

It's been a handful of years since, and even though I am 38, my lung tests read as 70 years old. I don't smoke, do laps at the pool. Should I make the conclusion that damage has occurred? How significant?
 

Offline thm_w

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 6272
  • Country: ca
  • Non-expert
Re: EEVblog #687 - EFTPOS PIN Pad Terminal Teardown
« Reply #60 on: October 08, 2019, 10:20:03 pm »
I am sorry to bump this one up, but I had an important question to ask in regards to this specific teardown. If this is the wrong place to ask, feel free to delete.

So, my question, is:

If an eftpos terminal were to be grinded up for decommission, would the airborne dust or the smoke caused by spot fires resulting from internal lithium batteries inside such units be dangerous to someones health?

Background:
For 3.5 years I worked for a company that did computer recycling. My role at the company was equipment testing, documentation and data wiping. However, for the last 1 year of my employment at this company, they rolled a larger shredding machine into the building, placed it next to my work bench, and decided to grind up eftpos terminals inside it. Many of these were the newer wireless models which contained battery packs plus an internal battery.

On any given day when the machine was in operation, the entire building was full of smoke, the fumes from the lithium was incredibly disturbing. So, I am interested in a bit of feedback, the units contain a lot of different things, the key chip is surrounded in a lattice of ceramics to avoid reverse engineering. I am told this key is programmed in a highly secure room and that all eftpos machines need to have this element destroyed before disposal.

The current:
It's been a handful of years since, and even though I am 38, my lung tests read as 70 years old. I don't smoke, do laps at the pool. Should I make the conclusion that damage has occurred? How significant?

Yeah that sounds terrible for your health. If they did not at the very least have proper air evacuation, thats going to be a serious problem.
Even with normal circuit boards we are talking about glass fiber and maybe lead dust.

I would get whatever records/evidence you can of this happening and report them.

No one here would have any idea of the damage, you'd have to visit a specialist. Whoever administered the lung test did not investigate further?
Profile -> Modify profile -> Look and Layout ->  Don't show users' signatures
 

Offline BezITAD

  • Contributor
  • Posts: 15
  • Country: au
Re: EEVblog #687 - EFTPOS PIN Pad Terminal Teardown
« Reply #61 on: October 08, 2019, 11:06:43 pm »
No air extraction, dust everywhere. There was no formal training in place, no hazards prevention. They dropped the machine in and then just ran it. I do believe they stuck a dust mask sign on the outside of the machine, but they never supplied any dust masks nor told anyone to wear them. They handed them out to the customer who came to video the machine in action.
 

Offline thm_w

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 6272
  • Country: ca
  • Non-expert
Re: EEVblog #687 - EFTPOS PIN Pad Terminal Teardown
« Reply #62 on: October 09, 2019, 12:14:41 am »
https://www.ohsa.com.au/services/dust-monitoring/ has a bit of info, its mostly targeted at mining.
Profile -> Modify profile -> Look and Layout ->  Don't show users' signatures
 


Share me

Digg  Facebook  SlashDot  Delicious  Technorati  Twitter  Google  Yahoo
Smf