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Gift Card Hacking

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the where-do-I-swipe-it dept.

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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  1. Re:Big Deal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Why does it get featured on ./ ? Because it involves something remotly technology related.

    Your question provides its own answer, mlknowle.

    Guess what - it's still stealing - this is no different than rummaging through an open cash register drawer.

    Again, you provide valuable insight. Thank you for countering an article that what was clearly intended to encourage mass-fraud.

  2. Re:Theft isn't new. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Are you going to blame the terrorists for WTC, or the country that is making it so easy with their freedom and openess?

  3. Re:Theft isn't new. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And the US, with more citizens in jail per capita than any other country knows ALL ABOUT freedom.

  4. MSNBC is describing another well-known company... by frleong · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    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...

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  5. Re:What the hell is wrong with legal tender? by Robber+Baron · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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...

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