Magnetic stripes magstripes are in fact magnetic.
MagSpoof can be used as a traditional credit card and simply store all of your credit cards and with modification, can technically disable chip requirements in various impressive and exciting form factors, or can be used for security research in any area that would traditionally require a magstripe, such as readers for credit cards, drivers licenses, hotel room keys, automated parking lot tickets, etc. MagSpoof does allow you to perform research in other areas of magstripes, microcontrollers, and electromagnetism, as well as learn about and create your own devices similar to other existing, commercial technologies such as Samsung MST and Coin. Simply having a credit card number and expiration is not enough to perform transactions. They are also USB and not serial.Note: MagSpoof does not enable you to use credit cards that you are not legally authorized to use. Once I purchased said reader, it worked fine. If I wanted a mag strip reader that will read input without any additional software to invoke, I needed a reader that doesn't have a writer as well.
The MSR can only be used with additional software either the software included, or by downloading softwarewhich initiates read mode versus write mode. Carl Binalla 4, 5 5 gold badges 23 23 silver badges 42 42 bronze badges. David David 1 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges.
I setup the driver, and it still does not read, unless I open the separate program, and even then, it only reads into the windows in the MSR You need to down load the MSR software its a program you can get for free if you go onca web site that sells them it will say software next to what machine you have it won't work with out it.Īctive 2 years, 8 months ago. However, I have not been able to get that to work.
Setup the usb driver for windows xp or vista and Setup the driver for MSR,all driver in the cd. However, I am unable to get it to read info from the cards, unless I have their software open, which sets the card reader to "Read Mode". I recently purchased the MSR, which can write as well as read cards. There is no programming necessary, except to parse the data, etc. These magnetic swipe readers essentially just dump whatever data is on the card to the screen cursur, as if it was typed.įor example, if you had notepad open, and you swiped a card, then it would output the data into notepad. Stack Overflow for Teams is a private, secure spot for you and your coworkers to find and share information. By using our site, you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Cookie PolicyPrivacy Policyand our Terms of Service.