What Does your Creditcard sound like??

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Did you ever wonder what your creditcard, your ATM card or even your office access card sound like? If so Joseph Battaglia shows you how to rip the up to three tracks the magneticstripe on the card offers. The only things needed are a sound card and reader head.

If you get bored by the rather monotonous sound, just use the software coded by Joseph Battaglia to get behind the beats and figure out what the magnetic stripes really tell you or your Bank in case of your credit or ATM card.

As the speaker who wanted to use the "Time to Ditch the Magstripe" Joseph made several magnetic stripes such as bus tickets, boarding passes, hotel room kys and others to reveal their data to the audience.

Joseph also showed the listeners how he had reverse engineered the formats of different magnetic cards by first comparing static data (many cards of the same type with same amount of money stored and a similar time of purchase) and then selectivly changeing things (eg using a single card once and another one twice, then comparing them to unused cards).

Here are some examples of talking, better sounding magnetic stripe cards