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Slashdot | Unlocking The Power Of the Magstripe
by Decius at 10:05 am EDT, Aug 9, 2004 |
] Acidus writes "While researching for an embedded systems
] project (a magstripe enabled Coke machine), I was shocked
] by the lack of magstripe information: Programs/code that
] would run on a modern OS were all but nonexistant,
] articles that were 6-10 years old, etc. Acidus is on Slashdot today. |
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RE: Slashdot | Unlocking The Power Of the Magstripe
by Acidus at 1:09 pm EDT, Aug 9, 2004 |
Decius wrote:
] ] Acidus writes "While researching for an embedded systems
] ] project (a magstripe enabled Coke machine), I was shocked
] ] by the lack of magstripe information: Programs/code that
] ] would run on a modern OS were all but nonexistant,
] ] articles that were 6-10 years old, etc.
]
] Acidus is on Slashdot today. I'm just glad I'm on Slashdot and I'm not getting sued for something. Thanks to Decius who pointed out a lot of spelling/typos late last night that I fixed, so I wouldn't look like a dumbass. |
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RE: Slashdot | Unlocking The Power Of the Magstripe
by phoenix at 1:27 pm EDT, Aug 10, 2004 |
Decius wrote:
] ] Acidus writes "While researching for an embedded systems
] ] project (a magstripe enabled Coke machine), I was shocked
] ] by the lack of magstripe information: Programs/code that
] ] would run on a modern OS were all but nonexistant,
] ] articles that were 6-10 years old, etc.
]
] Acidus is on Slashdot today. Great job on Stripe Snoop! When are you going to go to the next level - like wiping unnecessary but private data like SS #? |
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Magstripes: wiping private data
by Acidus at 4:27 pm EDT, Aug 10, 2004 |
] Great job on Stripe Snoop! When are you going to go to the
] next level - like wiping unnecessary but private data like SS
] #? This is an interesting question. Stripe Snoop's original purpose was to simply be a program to let people see what was on a magstripe. I then add features and other tools to allow people to modify and validate those modifcation to the magstripe data. Ultimately I'd like to get to the point of writing that modified data back to a card. All while keeping the code OSS, the hardware designs free, and the As for wiping the card, it really would depend. I might have an insurance card, that has a magstipe with my SSN, and other stuff. Assuming that I never actually use this magstripe, nor do my doctors, and assuming that the info you want to eliminate isn't simply printed on the car. You could safely remove the information. This might be a nice feature of Stripe Snoop database. To tell you not only what personal information is stored on the card, but also whether or not, but whether the card will still be operable if that data is removed. |
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Slashdot | Unlocking The Power Of the Magstripe
by k at 10:34 am EDT, Aug 9, 2004 |
] Acidus writes "While researching for an embedded systems
] project (a magstripe enabled Coke machine), I was shocked
] by the lack of magstripe information: Programs/code that
] would run on a modern OS were all but nonexistant,
] articles that were 6-10 years old, etc. Acidus is on Slashdot today. [ Congrats, Billy! -k] |
Acidus is the authoritative source on magstrip interfacing
by Rattle at 5:47 pm EDT, Aug 9, 2004 |
] Acidus writes "While researching for an embedded systems
] project (a magstripe enabled Coke machine), I was shocked
] by the lack of magstripe information: Programs/code that
] would run on a modern OS were all but nonexistant,
] articles that were 6-10 years old, etc. Acidus is on Slashdot today. That's the hardcore geek year 2k+ version of being on TV. He's done an extremely good job with the StripeSnoop site. All the information you'd need to get up to speed on working with magstripe stuff is there in the form of FAQ's, diagrams, and even video. Also, I just sync'd the SiteSnoop CVS tree, and it is building on OSX now as well. |
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