Clubbing in Fortress Amerika (fwd)

[Steve Schear]

At 10:52 PM 10/20/2001 +0000, Dr. Evil wrote:
> >       You know, I never even realized until right now that my DL has a mag
> > strip. This is a new thing for WI, I think. Pretty sure my recent MN didn't
> > have one. I guess the more interesting thing would be, before wiping it 
> out,
> > to figure out a way to read it.
>
>I'm sure you can buy card readers that will read it, but I'm equally
>sure you won't find anything sinister on it.  From what I understand,
>all they put on the back is a machine-readable version of the text
>that's on the front.  Nothing mysterious.
>
>Sooner or later the strips will be replaced with some kind of
>tamper-resistant smart chips, and then we will have a much harder time
>knowing what's on the chip.

It creates new opportunities for portable EMP "writers"

steve