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- From: paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO)
- Subject: Re: Magnetic strip stopper
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 17:43:02 GMT
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- cburian@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Christopher J Burian) writes:
-
- >How about running a demagnitizer or strong magnet over your new license as
- >soon as you get it? The grocery checkout swipes it through a couple times,
- >oh well, have to pay enough attention to type in the info by hand. How
- >quaint and old-fashioned. If/when you get pulled over, cop mumbles, you
- >mumble back promising to get another (must be my eelskin wallet ;-)
-
- Card stripes can be made with high coercivity (>200 oersteds) materials that
- will resist demagnetization by other cards and eelskin wallets. You'd
- best have a good explanation handy, e.g., work near NMR machines, if a cop
- can't read the card.
-
- /pbp
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