Magstripes

I mean, assuming that you're not contributing to the mess by scribbling IOUs with plastic and magstripes, and actually have something that supposedly represents your time and energy in a mattress or an account somewhere, is there something useful you can do with it? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Feed it your credit-card magstripes and your loyalty-card bar-codes, seal it with your fingerprint, then, on demand, it can mimic any of the cards in your wallet. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Both magstripes and paper appear to have enough inherent uniqueness. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This one was some research I did on the patents for credit card magstripes and included information on the density and formatting of the tracks. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A few months later, someone had a device hooked up to the parallel port of a laptop that could read and decode magstripes on credit cards, drivers licenses, student cards, and whatnot. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Cards still have magstripes because on occasion you'll come across a situation where there isn't a chip reader, and ATMs (presumably) still have magstripe readers for the occasions that the card doesn't have a chip. ❋ Unknown (2009)