The criminals, or the people they paid to carry out the physical attack, connected a Raspberry Pi to a bank's network switch, the same one hooked up to the ATM that was subsequently raided.

They're kind of skipping over an important detail here.

Sure the technical details are interesting, but it's a bit like discussing the alloys of the tumblers of the safe deposit box after the team has unexplainably bypassed the main safe door...

It's the Register, it is targeted to people familiar with technology.

I just work a pretty standard engineering job at a large company (basically regular office work, not a critical industry like power or pharma), and any MAC that isn't approved by IT is simply not a allowed to interface with anything whatsoever. It's insane that a bank has this loose IT security.

I love how the name "hacker" was successfully vilified by associating it with criminals, something we already had a word for.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Hacker

"The media's definition of the real term malicious cracker. A hacker used to be a well respected individual who loved to tinker with gadgets.", plus a few other definitions.

They needed a lot of physical interactions to pull off this cybercaper.