I imagine alot more people would use Stripe Snoop, except they have to buy and assemble some equipment. Well no more! Now Mac/Sun/SGI/HP users can run Stripe Snoop. See this entry from the Stripe Snoop FAQ:

Q: Do I need a hardware interface to use Stripe Snoop?

A: NO! Stripe Snoop plans to be the definitive program for researching and labeling magstripe data. Because of this, a new Input Mode has been added. This allows for a bitsream to be entered on the keyboard (stdin) to be parsed, decoded, and analyzed as if it came in from the hardware reader. Raw Mode has been added so that people who have a reader can output the raw bitsteam to a file. This allows for easy sharing of card info without everyone needing a card reader, and a copy of that card.

Both Raw and Input Mode are not in the current releaseof Stripe Snoop, 1.2. They are however, available in the CVS code.

Update The web view of the CVS doesn't show the updated code. You need to anonymously download the cvs tree using the following instructions:

https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=14033&group_id=1

] "If you're 15 and angry at your dad, you want to go and
] break something. But the biggest part of hacking is
] creation," notes "Acidus," a speaker at a Friday panel on
] intellectual property and technology.

Sorry Abaddon! This wasn't exactly what I said, but close.

The line that got be the biggest applause was "Do you think Marconi and Tesla could have built the radio if the telegraph was a little black box you couldn't open? We are selling out our future inventors and innovators for the short terms profits of the RIAA."

USATODAY.com - Hackers have HOPE

] Welcome to FUH2.com, home of the official Hummer H2
] salute. So...why all the fuss? Well, it breaks down like
] this:

FUH2 | Fuck You And Your H2

Decius wrote:
] Acidus wrote:
]
] ] "Fuck you and your adjectives" -Rattle
]
] You forgot a couple of mine...
]
] "Is this the 'bad part' of town?"
]
] "Nick, you realise that if you were a politician your career
] would now be over."

Oh yeah and:

"All I know about New York comes from Law and Order. According to my watch, I should be dead by now with 2 sarcastic detectives standing over my corpse." -Acidus

RE: Quotes From HOPE 5

] Sealab 2021 Episodes

Transcripts and triva from all (38 at last count) the Sealab 2021 episodes.

Sealab 2021 Episode list with transcripts

These few quotes pretty much summarize all of HOPE 5.

"How are you going to get into Grad school without getting an undergrad?" "Thats a good questions, but I'm working on it!" -Virgil about Grad School.

"That sandwich is the size of my face" -Acidus [repeated line]

"Dumb as a bag of rocks with all the smart rocks removed." -Abaddon

"Fuck you and your adjectives" -Rattle

"How do you lose a black man in Chinatown?" -Stankdawg

"Have you ever worked with smart cards?"
"...no"
"Would you like to work with smart cards?"
"... Yes." -Germans after my magstripe talk

"Come on! Yesterday I saw a bum with a cell phone." "Yeah, we are forcing you into the next store we find and you are buying a phone." - Abaddon And Decius

"Do these posters look, ... I don't know, a little left to you?" - Rattle about HOPE.

"Nick, Door... door... DOOR!" -Acidus, in the car.

"What are you guys doing on this roof?" -Security

"Stop talking, Billy and I are still having a 'Damn!' moment." -Abaddon

] We got to listen to Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple
] computer and hacker legend speak today with his HOPE
] keynote.

This speech has something I had never seen in countless shows about Woz or Apple. It talks about *why* he did and thought the way he did, as well as how he taught kids in school.

Steve Wozniak HOPE Keynote for download

] President Bush is seeking a second term but Democratic
] nominee John Kerry and independent Ralph Nader want him
] out of the White House. Each has a range of views on the
] key issues involved in the November election

A set of short tables of key issues in the upcoming election, and how each candidiate stands.

Election Issues and stances of candidates

] US Congressman Rick Boucher took up arms against the
] Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act bill, being
] brought before Congress right now, in a website interview
] at Inside Digital Media this week.

Man I wish I could vote to re-elect this man

Hatch's Induce Act comes under fire | The Register

] This year's horizons for Macrovision, the highly valued
] content protection company, include a system to defeat
] file-sharing, a new, more effective, CD copy protection
] system and a shot at an interoperable Digital Rights
] Management system of its own.

A nice look at the current state-of-the-rt of DRM/copy protection, and where it is going in the future

Putting the 'vision' in Macrovision | The Register