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Payment Systems: Magstripe, Tokenization, NFC and EMV
Level 1 · Foundations75 min

Magnetic stripe data

Track encoding and the security thinking of the era — then MagSpoof, part by part, and the unsigned field on the stripe that tells a terminal to prefer the chip.

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What this module covers

  1. 01Two tracks that matter
  2. 02The service code is the whole game
  3. 03How the bits get onto the stripe
  4. 04MagSpoof, and what it costs to be a card
  5. 05The circuit, and why each part is there
  6. 06What it does not do, which he says first
  7. 07The finding that outlived the device
  8. 08Why the stripe cannot be fixed