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Magnetic Stripe Snooping at Home

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. What am I missing? by hesiod · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I don't understand what is important about this... There have been hundreds of magstripe readers with software out for years, some of which are free (software, obviously, not hardware). And it's not like he had to decrypt the stuff... they're called standards for a reason: it's usually public knowledge how to get the info off of a card.