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Re: credit-card encoding (was Re: Wiegand wires?)

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From: David Lesher
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 1990 23:40
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>>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?
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& no one will talk to a host that's close............(305) 255-RTFM
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From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
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Subject: Re: credit-card encoding (was Re: Wiegand wires?)
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Date: 1 Oct 90 23:40:35 GMT
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