The 16-digit account number stored in your card's magnetic stripe zooms across a leased phone line to the merchant's bank, zips under the Pacific to Visa's data center outside Tokyo and rides the Visa network to the data center of your issuing bank in Delaware.
In skimming, information is stolen from a card's magnetic stripe and then used to make a counterfeit card.
The most common type of counterfeiting is called skimming, where the data on a card's magnetic stripe is electronically copied and used to make an illegal copy of a genuine card.
Available in two colors, burgundy and black, the new notebook line features a sculptured design that blends materials and edges for a cohesive look and feel marked by the cover's distinctive branding stripe flanked by silver accents.
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This time, he said he liked German painter Gerhard Richter's wall-size print "Stripe" at Marian Goodman's booth.
"Because it's contact-less there's a perception people can grab it from thin air, but it's actually a more sophisticated technology than credit cards with a magnetic stripe, making it more difficult to steal a consumer's payment information, " said Nick Holland, a mobile-transactions analyst at Yankee Group.
The professor and the policeman's beers are equally symbolic, Pirko says - Red Stripe with its Jamaican pedigree, and Blue Moon striving for craft beer credibility, though it's actually made by Coors.
This time, however, unlike then, Mr Netanyahu's team is not of one ideological stripe.
Additionally, the 16:9 ratio allows for viewing more information at a glance and the device's high pixel density of 313ppi and Stripe RGB IPS Panel offers sharper and crisper text.
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It was like painting a stripe with a brush that's only half its width.
But engineers soon realized that one day they would be trying to paint a stripe with a brush that's twice its width.
Perhaps the real problem is the colour Berlin's conservative-led government has chosen for the stripe.
Mathieu even resembles his namesake, with dyed-blond hair that echoes the vanilla stripe that runs down the animal's back.
As Burberry's check surfaces everywhere, the company is pushing a new pattern: the Burberry stripe.
As Burberry's classic check surfaces everywhere, the company is pushing a new pattern: the Burberry stripe.
The publisher of the world's top business magazine leapt off a 55-foot cliff into water after his fourth Red Stripe.
The glossy stripe from the original white or grey One X has gone, and -- if it's possible -- the plastic feels slightly softer and classier.
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" Unlike the West, says Catherine Allen, founder of U.S.-based Smart Card Forum, the region "does not have the embedded infrastructure of magnetic-stripe cards to get rid of.
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