[David Cranor] has found a way to fool a magnetic stripe reader using a hand-wound electromagnet and an iPod. The data on a card is read and stored on a computer, then encoded as a WAV file using ...

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[anfractuosus] has been reading magnetic stripe card… optically! While hackers routinely read and write stripe cards, this is the first time we’ve reported on optically imaging and decoding ...