We’re now all used to near-limitless storage on flash and other semiconductor technologies, but there was a time when persistent storage was considerably less easy to achieve. A 1970s ...

The whole thing is built into a wooden box that hides its digital nature, which is built using a Raspberry Pi and a credit card stripe reader.

The magnetic stripe, sometimes called swipe card or magstripe, is read by swiping past a magnetic reading head. Magnetic recording on steel tape and wire was invented during World War II for ...

A small length of magnetic tape adhered to credit cards, badges, permits, passes and tokens. The tape is read by magnetic stripe readers incorporated into ATMs, identification readers and payment ...

Magnetic stripe readers and magnetic stripe encoders are devices that read and encode magnetic stripe cards such as driver’s licenses, employee badges, and credit cards. A magnetic stripe card is ...

Failure to do so can deactivate the encrypted chip within your Wildcard (resulting in a $25 replacement card fee). In addition to the magnetic stripe, your card will display your photograph, name, and ...

As he slipped the key card into the reader on his hotel room door and tried the handle - to no avail - he realised what he had done. For years, Steven Murdoch, a security researcher at University ...

Europay, Mastercard, and Visa created EMV chip technology to store card information on a metallic chip instead of a magnetic stripe. Credit card security chips or EMV, aims to tackle security ...

[Newsweek] Is This the End for the Magnetic Stripe? Since the 1960s, magstripes have been used on bank cards, rail tickets, IDs and even cards containing medical information, to set up hospital ...