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Here’s a fun little hack that will allow you to spoof most magnetic stripe readers including your local groceries’ credit card reader.

This instructable demonstrates how to use an electromagnet, a simple amplifier circuit, and a personal music player to induce signals into a magnetic stripe card reader, causing it to think that you have swiped a card through it.

via hackszine

Tags: amplifier circuit, credit card reader, electromagnet, groceries, Hack, instructable, magnetic stripe card, magnetic stripe card reader, magnetic stripe readers, personal music player, signals, spoof

This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 at 12:57 pm and is filed under Consumer, Cool, DoItYourself!, Educational, Entertainment, Gadgets, HOWTO, Hack, Prank, Spy.
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