[rschoultz]

> That's Sweden, its highly illegal to do trades while disconnected from the Nanny [State].

This sort of implies that cash registers must be connected online to the tax authority or some governmental function in order to operate. That is simply not true.

[drrotmos]

No, but you need to have a cash register approved by the tax authority. The cash register used by Coop the part of the system that was attacked. Coop could switch to a different approved cash register system, but that's presumably a fairly large project.