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Here's a recent blog post of mine describing the data stored on a Boston transit CharlieTicket:
http://ossguy.com/?p=206
It builds on the work done by some MIT students on understanding the MBTA's fare and ticketing systems, which is available in their paper:
http://tech.mit.edu/V128/N30/subway/Defcon_Presentation.pdf
If you have questions, I would prefer if you commented on my blog...
2009-01-10 17:25:31 UTC in Stripe Snoop
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The Stripe Snoop database is fairly limited in general. It can determine some types of credit cards as well as AAMVA drivers' licenses (used in North America) and a few gift cards. Aside from the drivers' licenses, I wouldn't say North Americans are significantly favored in the database. You are free to add your own formats to Stripe Snoop, although development on the program is not as active...
2008-12-20 04:27:50 UTC in Stripe Snoop
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Thanks for letting me know. It's not a particularly verbose error message, but it seems to confirm that the software cannot read magstripes with non-standard encodings. It's still possible that the reader can do it, but it would need different software if it could.
2008-12-19 16:18:38 UTC in Stripe Snoop
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You're right, the MIT guys do appear to recommend the reader from Spark Fun Electronics in their document. However, they seem to assume the MSR206 in the rest of that section. From what I have read about the MSR206, it also reads only standard tracks out of the box, but the MIT guys did mention that they wrote custom GPLed software to use with the MSR206. Unfortunately, I can't find the...
2008-12-19 16:09:39 UTC in Stripe Snoop
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