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By Sean Michael Ragan

Sean Michael Ragan

I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.

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May 9th, 2010 4

Very cool trick from anaglyph: Apply powdered iron oxide to the magnetic stripe on a swipe card to visualize the encoded data. [via Boing Boing]

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• EMSL on magnetic fields
• Magnetic stripe card spoofer
• HOW TO – Decode your drivers license barcodes
• HOW TO – Read postal bar codes
• Build a magstripe reader from scratch
• Sploitcast – Emulating magnetic cards…
• Turning your mobile phone into a magnetic stripe reader

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By Sean Michael Ragan

Sean Michael Ragan

I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.

View more articles by Sean Michael Ragan

@seanragan

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