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What's On Your Hotel Keycard
Lam1969 writes "From Robert Mitchell's blog on Computerworld: '... Wallace, IT director at AAA Reading-Berks in Wyomissing, Penn. has been bringing a card reader with him on business trips to see what's on the magnetic strips of his hotel room access cards. To his dismay, a surprising number have contained his name and credit card information - and in unencrypted form.' " Update: 09/20 19:10 GMT by J : Snopes, as of two months ago, says this is false.
The Walt Disney World resort in Florida has a rather all-encompassing keycard system. Not only is it your hotel room key, but its also your pass into the theme parks as well. In the parks, you can use it to get Fast-Pass tickets, and the system keeps track to prevent you from having more than one at a time. At the stores and resturants you can charge any purchases to it and they will show up on your bill at checkout. They can even ship the gifts straight to your hotel room by pulling that info off the card as well.
I'd love to see what kind of data is on one of those.
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How about you read the snopes article you just submitted? It says down at the bottom that some cards DO indeed contain this information, but there have been no cases of criminal activity that have been related to it.
At least not that snopes knows of...because snopes the all knowing source of information. If the crack investigation team there didn't find anything then it must not have happened.
Read up and use some common sense before posting a reply.