Patent ID: 8020759

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: an automated banking machine that operates responsive to data read from data bearing records to cause financial transactions, including: a plurality of hardware components including: a card reader operative to read card data on user cards corresponding to financial accounts; and a cash dispenser; at least one computer in operative connection with the plurality of hardware components; at least one door; a housing, wherein the at least one computer, the at least one door, and the plurality of hardware components are in operatively supported connection with the housing, wherein the at least one door is movable between a closed position and an open position, wherein at least one of the hardware components includes at least one input device positioned inside the housing, wherein when the at least one door is in the open position the at least one input device is operative to receive an input through manual operation of the at least one input device, wherein when the at least one door is in the closed position the at least one input device is not capable of receiving the input through manual operation of the at least one input device, wherein the at least one hardware component is responsive to the input received through manual operation of the at least one input device to cause the at least one hardware component to accept data received from the least one computer by the at least one hardware component for use with authenticating communications received by the at least one hardware component from the at least one computer, wherein when the at least one door is in the closed position, the at least one hardware component is operative to authenticate at least one communication received from the at least one computer using the accepted data, wherein the at least one hardware component is operative to carry out a transaction function responsive to the at least one authenticated communication received from the at least one computer.