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Laundering Money

Michael Orlitzky

Hardware vulnerabilities and bypasses in smart, app-controlled commercial laundry machines and payment mechanisms.

Summary

Smart Payment Retrofits on Commercial Machines

CSC ServiceWorks is a large vendor of pay-to-play laundry machines in apartments and condomiums. Most are Speed Queens, but newer CSC-branded machines use an app for payment and have custom circuitry inside. Many however accept quarters as well. We show that, when all else fails, you can always physically bypass the coin slot to run the machines for free.

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