@ube @prettygood @scathach magstrips?

@twinspin6 @prettygood @scathach yeah the magnetic strips on the cards can rub onto other shit and interfere and make the strips unreadable too. this is not that uncommon of an occurrence its happened to me a few times, but i hear its most common with quickly done stuff like hotel cards

@ube @prettygood @scathach i have like a library card with a magstrip on it
expired long time ago
i should take it out of my wallet

@twinspin6 @prettygood @scathach i got plenty of them, but idk why its being phrased as an american thing. my european bank cards have them too i mean theyre the same fucking companies almost certainly visa or mastercard. though its odd that my new (us) medical card has one my old one never did

@ube @prettygood @scathach my european cards have no magstrips and you couldn't even use magstrips to pay for anything
it has been years since i last saw a magstrip reader

@twinspin6 @prettygood @scathach yeah i dont really see them but im sure their out there. the annoying thing is with these chip readers the magstrip usually declines if you use it instead of the chip so like whats the point bro. and then tap is a whole other thing, i like it, but my us card still doesnt have it. should soon its expiring and i know their newer cards have it. im a big fan of magstrips and them being on readers though. its far far easier to both steal and to reuse card details. the magstrip is literally just account information and shit that can be pulled from and you can easily just write it to another card. usually people specialize in one part of this and do business with the other, but hell if you were ballsy enough you could do this all on your own slap on one of them fake units when the cashier is turned to the cigs you asked for and burn that shit to cards and use em to buy shit you can easily resell for cash and dont got shit like serial numbers ideally. dont buy prepaids though itll be linked to the stolen card, unless... again if you were ballsy and fast enough i think you can take cash out of like walmart prepaids. or ig in europe what id do if i wanted to be ballsy and call dirty money good enough is id buy burner paysera accounts or similar and top up as a convenience store (i think paysera was the big one that allows this?) and then withdraw cash at one of their atms. i forgot where i was going with this, anyways dont do that its wrong go refund scam instead or some shit i dont care

@twinspin6 @prettygood @scathach oh yeah what i meant to say was magstrips have the static information to take money while the chips its generated per payment and cant be reused

@twinspin6 @scathach yeah the "always on your person" (at least when you leave the house) idea is a winner.

Same, except I use the space inside my wristwatch to store the card