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."

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MSNBC is describing another well-known company...

[frleong]

Some retailers don't take basic security steps to protect against counterfeiting that would cheat consumers out of the money stored on the cards. Add to that surprising merchant "expiration" fees and leftover balances that revert to the retailers, and the cards may not really be such a good deal for consumers.

Just search and replace "retailers" with "software companies" and "cards" with "OS", for example...

Re:What the hell is wrong with legal tender?

[Robber Baron]

How can you read this website, and still be so backwards?

Call me backwards...on a site where UNIX is spoken of with religious fervour...where there are lurkers who speak PASCAL or FORTRAN...who remember green CRTs, punch cards, reminiscing about BBS's and the Internet pre WWW...