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Old 19th May 07, 08:03 AM
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Technology 'fingerprints' valid credit cards, flags bogus ones
*Source: News.com (http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-972...7-1023_3-0-5)*
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The way the particles land on a given credit card magnetic stripe are as unique as individual snow flakes or human fingerprints. So says a Magtek (http://www.magneprint.com/informatio....asp#safe_atm), a company that has developed a product, MagnePrint, for recording the unique magnetic media signature for all credit and debit cards scanned through its readers. The first scan by a MagnePrint reader creates a template against which all subsequent scans are compared.

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