Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!umigw!mthvax!wb8foz From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: credit-card encoding (was Re: Wiegand wires?) Message-ID: <1990Oct1.234035.23515@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> Date: 1 Oct 90 23:40:35 GMT References: <1990Sep25.153854.2812@zoo.toronto.edu> <34388@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) Distribution: na Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews Abusers Lines: 13 >> >>WRT non-hacker types doing this, I heard about the iron technique several >>years ago, when it was rumored that tickets for the Bay Area Rapid Transit >>(BART) system were being duplicated in this way by the average citizens >>of places like Oakland. Wasn't John Draper (Captain Crunch) accused/pursued/ prosecuted/persecuted at one point for something having to do with? -- A host is a host from coast to coast.....wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu & no one will talk to a host that's close............(305) 255-RTFM Unless the host (that isn't close)......................pob 570-335 is busy, hung or dead....................................33257-0335