Clubbing in Fortress Amerika (fwd)

[Yeoh Yiu]

Meyer Wolfsheim <wolf at priori.net> writes:


> A friend of mine recently informed me that he has access to a mag-strip
> reader, and scanned several drivers' licenses (as well as Safeway cards
> and other random credit-card like items.)
> 
> Most contained the information displayed on the front of the card, and/or
> some seemingly random numbers (most likely, the ID numbers.)
> 
> California DL's have nothing interesting stored in that magstrip that
> isn't on the front of the card. And no, the signature isn't reflected in
> the magstrip.


They might store a long number and without a dictionary you
don't know what it means.  It's unlikely that older cards
would use and XMLish annoted data.

eg does

197202281800602
mean it belongs to a 180# 6'2" person born on Feb 28, 1972 ?

How could you tell ?

YY