The Cost of Going Cashless: Hackers Shut Down Iran’s ATM System

“When Cash Disappears, who gets Control?”

Computer Hackers have attacked the financial system in Iran and this morning, ALL ATM’s in the ENTIRE country, are offline and cannot issue currency.

Today is day four of the Israeli attack on Iran, which began with a vicious SNEAK ATTACK last Friday.   In four short days of conflict, Iran’s entire Banking Industry is now offline.

Reports are also saying credit card authorization systems are also down.  This means that Iranians who are not in possession of actual currency, can’t buy . . . ANYTHING.

Will this same thing happen to YOU if/when the  Pawpaw here in the United States?  Will YOU be one of the people who stayed blissfully unaware of what’s going on in the world, only to suddenly find out that what happens “over there” has suddenly happened “over here?”

HAVE CASH MONEY. 

Always have some cash in your wallet with you, and have a small “stash” at your house.  Not for paying bills, but to SURVIVE if the crap hits the fan.  Enough to buy some food, water, gas for your car, etc.

As we see today, in Iran, Hackers can come out of nowhere, and before you know it, you can’t use all those little plastic cards in your wallet.

Don’t be one of the “masses who are asses” and leave yourself vulnerable.  HAVE CASH MONEY.

• A cashless society brings dangers. People without bank accounts will find themselves further marginalised, disenfranchised from the cash infrastructure that previously supported them. There are also poorly understood psychological implications about cash encouraging self-control while paying by card or a mobile phone can encourage spending.

A cashless society has major surveillance implications.

The Push Toward a Cashless Society

• Banks and financial institutions across the Western world are closing branches and ATMs to promote digital banking and payments.
• This shift is framed as a response to customer preferences, but in reality, it’s a cost-cutting strategy and a way to centralize control over financial interactions.
• The process involves “nudging”—making non-digital options harder to access, thereby steering people toward digital alternatives.
• Self-checkout systems in supermarkets are a parallel example: introduced as convenience, they gradually replace staff and reshape customer behavior.
• The true motive behind digital banking is corporate profit—banks want to reduce costs, and payment companies want to increase digital transaction volumes and control over spending.
• Philosophers like Gramsci and Althusser explain how institutions shape public perception to make their interests seem natural and inevitable.
• Cash is being framed as inconvenient, even though it offers resilience (it doesn’t crash), privacy, and independence from centralized systems.

Extracted from:

Hal Turner  – Hackers Take-Out ATM’s in all of Iran