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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.
for the next version they'll include rfid as well as sensors in your head, so all you have to do is look at something long enough, and zap! it's purchased and turns up in your hotel room, nicely wrapped, just after dinner.
After all, the card contains magnetically encoded data. By reading the card, you are breaking the encoding to acquire proprietary business data. You are thus committing a felony. By owning the reader, you are in possession of an instrument of felony, like carrying around a crowbar or a crack pipe. You, sir, by implying that there is no crime committed, are aiding and abetting criminal activities, itself a crime. Please report to your nearest Department of Love education center for processing.