[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 ...

[anfractuosus] has been reading magnetic stripe card… optically! While hackers routinely read and write stripe cards, this is the first time we’ve reported on optically imaging and decoding ...

It also specializes in golf businesses, but that division doesn’t offer card readers (just full POS setups). Stripe is best known for its online payment processing, but it also has a mobile card ...