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Very little helps: Tesco flashes ancient Windows desktop on Scan-As-You-Shop device

Lee D Silver badge

Looks like one of these:

https://scanco.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/article_attachments/115026446087/Datawedge_Basic_Configuration_Guide.pdf

Looks like people have been playing with them for years (this mentions 2009):

http://www.barcodedatalink.com/pages/datawedge.php

Looks like we still haven't learned that obsolete general purpose operating systems "just running" an app you want them to, incidentally to all the other background stuff that's left on there, is going to be the way that cyber-apocalypse will compromise us. Not advanced hacking and breaking encryption, but finding Wordpad running on a scanner connected to a corporate network improperly.

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