I have been looking for a small mag card reader and finally came across this one. It is USB, it has a built in clock to keep track of the time of the swipe. And finally it has 512k of storage, which the manufacturer claims holds 3000 swipes. Pretty awesome. It reads tracks, 1,2, and 3. The pricetag for this little guy is $340 USD. I’d love to get my hands on a model for a review if the company is reading You can read more on the manufacturer’s website: http://tyner.com/magnetic/msr500ex.htm Anyone have any favorite mag card readers/writers?
Over 100,000 people have already signed up for The Pirate Bay’s new anonymity service, Ipredator, designed to hide IP addresses from the authorities, the Bay’s spokesman says. Last Wednesday, the controversial Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) became law in Sweden. Its main goal is to enable copyright holders to acquire data identifying people linked to illegal file sharing. Wired.com reported last week that internet use in Sweden dipped by 30 percent when IPRED came into force on April 1. Some 113,000 persons have signed up and are in queue for the Ipredator service, and about 80 percent are Swede, Peter Sunde, spokesperson for The Pirate Bay, said to the Swedish news agency TT Tuesday....
Since you guys liked yesterday’s post where a reader found an ATM skimming device so much, Network World has got a bit of “Rogue’s Gallery” of the credit card-number stealing machines so you’ll better know what to look for out in the wild. For instance, this photo shows how thieves will mount a camera on the ATM so they can record you typing in your PIN. It’s placed over the statement dispenser using plastic that matches perfectly with the “host” ATM. Sneaky.
Got this off hackaday.com When we first saw [Chris Paget]’s cloning video, our reaction was pretty ‘meh’. We’d seen RFID cloning before and the Mifare crack was probably the last time RFID was actually interesting. His ShmooCon presentation, embedded above, caught us completely off-guard. It’s very informative; we highly recommend it. The hardest part about selling this talk is that it has to use two overloaded words: ‘RFID’ and ‘passport’. The Passport Card, which is part the the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI), is not like the passport book that you’re familiar with. It has the form factor of a driver’s license and can only be used for land and sea travel between the USA, Canada,...
