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Unlocking The Power Of the Magstripe
Acidus writes "While researching for an embedded systems project (a magstripe enabled Coke machine), I was shocked by the lack of magstripe information: Programs/code that would run on a modern OS were all but nonexistant, articles that were 6-10 years old, etc. Further research proved hard, because I had become google's authoritative source. So Stripe Snoop was born, and is now at 1.5 . Stripe Snoop is a suite of research tools that captures, modifies, validates, generates, analyzes, and shares magstripe data, with an ever-growing database of card formats. Decoding everything from driver's licenses to banking cards, its features can analyze non-standard cards, such as NYC's Metrocard."
When I was in college they had bar code scanners for the parking gates. That was easy enough to duplicate. But, right when I was leaving they switched to mag stripes. Now it's easy for a new generation to figure them out and make working cards.
Evolution or ID?
I't not like a federal offense or anything is it?
Maybe you were mildly suprised?
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While researching for an embedded systems project (a magstripe enabled Coke machine)
In other words you wanted to get a Coke the other day and didn't have any spare change, right? :)
Asshat? I detect a Farker.
He was president of our theatre organization. Do you know how many times we had to swear that we wouldn't let him get near the buzzcard reader in order to get one?