[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 computer, then encoded as a WAV file using ...

A 1970s programmable calculator from Sharp approached the problem with magnetic strips on special cards, and since [Menadue] has one with no cards, he set about making his own. These cards are a ...

Additionally, ATMs located in tourist areas are more often targeted by card skimmer scammers. The skimmers allow criminals to collect information from the magnetic strips on credit or debit cards.