As the time line at right shows, hundreds of times in our planet's history the polarity of the magnetic shield ensheathing the globe has gone from "normal," our current orientation to the north ...

After building a USB magnetic stripe reader, [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 ...

[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 ...