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Gift Card Hacking
TheSauce writes "MSNBC has this discussion of how easy it is to hack and jack the contents of those lovely Plastic Gift Cards one sees at most Mass Merchants and Consumer Electronics stores.
One retailer notes that the odds of this occuring are about at the level of being pickpocketed."
gift cards want to be free!
Big deal - this is theft. Why does it get featured on ./ ? Because it involves something remotly technology related. Guess what - it's still stealing - this is no different than rummaging through an open cash register drawer.
So, after spending hundreds of dollars in equipment, casing the store and memorizing the numbers, your reward is:
Books!
Cans of Paint!
Socks!
The risk/reward here is pathetic. They would be better off stuffing things into their oversized coats during the holiday rush.
Democrats or Republicans. They are both taking us to the same place and they are not afraid of us anymore.
Why didn't I think of that?
Now I can get everything on my christmas list and screw over a horde of people during the holiday season! Isn't technology great, even when it's old technology...
You think that I'm crazy, you should see this guy!
I fucking live in this town. I had no idea a vast conspiracy to defraud Best Buy was happening all around me this whole time. I figured this town had the collective IQ of a walnut. The whole time I lived here I could of been hanging out with sk1pt k1dd13z.
What, me worry?
They sit right out in the open at the Wal-mart in Windsor, Ontario. Just hanging there in the checkout aisle begging to be taken.
Tells you something about:
A) Honesty of Canadians.
B) Trusting nature of Canadians.
or C) Intelligence of Canadians.
I'll let you pick
AWG
You think that I'm crazy, you should see this guy!
most places already do this. looking through a bunch of receipts from christmas, Texaco, ShopRite (a PA-area food store), Kmart, Walmart, and Bed Bath & Beyond print the last 4 digits, Levi's Outlet at Franklin Mills Mall prints the whole number.
That's ok for me though, as I know how to protect myself. Dont trash the receipt at the store. At home, carefully cut up each digit individually using a pair of scissors, separate the piles into several seperate trash bins somewhere downtown, the more blocks apart the better.
The One Rule Of Chess You'll Ever Need: Don't play someone who carries a kit in their bookbag.
Starbucks never has Raktajino, so they'd deserve it! :^)
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Lord of the cards ...
--- I am known for the ones who want to find me on the net. Is that a privacy risk or a privilege? One might wonder..
A lot more now :)