[GTALUG] General Hacker Stuff -Point of Sale and other exploits

[Alvin Starr]

Heading out on a trip a little while back we asked our credit card 
company if we needed to notify them.

The response was we only needed to notify them if we were heading to the 
U.S. because it is just about the last place on earth that still uses 
magstripe credit cards.

A guy I worked for years ago with seeing people with "will work for 
food" signs on the side of the road in California said.

"America is a third world country. They just don't know it yet".



On 03/01/2017 05:25 PM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 3:33 PM, Russell Reiter via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>> IMHO Here's a link to a must see Defcon 24 video.
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV_0k9Fh590
>>
>> Modern Magstripe hacking & more.
>>
>> They're using iron oxide not ammonium dichromate as I related in an earlier
>> post but; refunding to a different credit card than the original one
>> charged. Can't wait to see how this one turns out.
>>
>> Does everything old become new again and if so how quickly does that happen?
> When it comes to computers I'm thinking somewhere between 5 and 10 years.
> In regards to a lot of other areas its seems like the head shift every
> 25 to 30 some years
> means that there is a lot of redoing because that research, from the
> early part of
> the previous cycle, has been forgotten!
>
> Regards
>
> Dee
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