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Magnetic Stripe Snooping at Home

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday March 1, 2005 @02:59AM from the because-you-can dept.

pbrinich writes "Have you ever wondered what information is actually stored on all those cards you have in your wallet? Well, it turns out you can find out yourself! An excellent project, Stripe Snoop started by Billy Hoffman, a Georgia Tech computer science student, contains schematics, source code and a wide variety of information about the standards used to store all sorts of information on your magnetic cards."

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to sum up a lot of comments... by niteice · 2005-03-01 03:00 · Score: 5, Funny

*puts on tinfoil hat*

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1. Re:to sum up a lot of comments... by Living+WTF · 2005-03-01 03:03 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  You have a magnetic stripe on your head?
  
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Gives new meaning... by Reignking · 2005-03-01 03:02 · Score: 5, Funny

Gives new meaning to the Capital One tagline "What's in your wallet?"

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Re:Hurray ! by R2.0 · 2005-03-01 03:46 · Score: 5, Funny

"Ok, that last part isn't true"

What, your children are ugly? Such honesty is refreshing.

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