The RF IDeas pcSwipe intelligent magnetic stripe card reader is a solution for end-users wanting to leverage their existing base of magnetic stripe card-carrying personnel. The ...

Reading magnetic stripe cards requires significant analog circuitry besides digital logic to decode data. ... Generally, a magnetic card reader is required to function properly in the swipe speed ...

The EMV cards are the same size as the magnetic stripe credit cards, but the technology is very different. According to Wired , the chip-based cards have a mini-computer that is "more tamper-proof ...

Chip cards are more secure. Magnetic stripe credit cards carry a high risk of fraud through skimmers that criminals add to card readers at ATMs, retail stores and gas stations.These devices ...

[Mike] added a magnetic card reader on the side of a minifridge that allows any card with a magnetic stripe – a library card, credit card, or school ID – to serve as a unique identifier for ...

The magnetic stripe, developed by IBM, was introduced to credit cards in the early 1960s. Before that, clerks had to write out the customer’s information by hand. The phase-out of the magnetic ...

After building a USB magnetic stripe reader, [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… ...

The new cards encode the user's account information not in the magnetic stripe along the card's back, but in a computer chip embedded in it. The chip generates a unique, one-time code for each sale.