Major malfunction was working on something very similar a couple of years ago. He showed an early prototype at Defcon 14.

Also, he pegged the correct inspiration for this hack: terminator 2 (john connor uses something like this to hack an ATM)

Posted at 12:12 am on Aug 5th, 2008 by MrGlass

So who’s working on the parabolic microphone version (just aim it at someone’s pocket from 1/2 mile away)? We need an excuse to recycle the plastic and go back to cash, right?

Posted at 12:25 am on Aug 5th, 2008 by Lee

At least at my secure site, you’d need the PIN number associated with the badge.

Posted at 12:30 am on Aug 5th, 2008 by William Sims

>Also, he pegged the correct inspiration
>for this hack: terminator 2

T2 was the first thing i thought of. second (maybe this shows my age), i thought of getting free groceries.

Posted at 12:57 am on Aug 5th, 2008 by miked

This seems like a fun project to play with on a saturday or something. (going to radio shack tomorrow.)
(mainly for showoff purposes)

Posted at 2:23 am on Aug 5th, 2008 by Emanuel P.

Lol, thank you YouTube for linking good videos. I now know what to use this device for: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnIf0JJWekU

Posted at 3:08 am on Aug 5th, 2008 by M4CGYV3R

The device in T2 was real. The FBI had some in evidence in a documentary I seen a long time ago.

It was a brute force tool for locks there though. Although it probably would of worked on the ATM machines in the 80s. It’d probably take a while for a 8 bit chip to brute force anything involving 16 bytes.

It probably still works on all the above, but ATM machines probably have some alert system; they are on VPNs now usually running embedded XP. In any case there’s no info on it. It’s obscure like casino cheat computer algorithms, auto passive transponder crypto etc..

Posted at 4:34 am on Aug 5th, 2008 by TJHooker

You could drive this with a microcontroller instead of an ipod – that would make the whole process a lot simpler because you could just send the bitstream out one of the pins and into your amplifier. Then you could hook up a card reader to the microcontroller too, and voila, instant card copier. I know you can copy card really easily with a mag-writer if you’re willing to spend a couple hundred bucks, but that seems so obvious… this seems like it has its advantages.
-Taylor

Posted at 6:17 am on Aug 5th, 2008 by Taylor Alexander

Old hack put to a new use. I used to build these and attach a 10 ohm resistor, a headphone jack and put it in a cassette tape shell and you had aux input input for your car stereo.

Kudos to the Phrack article. I cited that as a reference for my Senior project where I built from scratch a magnetic card decoder.

Posted at 12:30 pm on Aug 5th, 2008 by beakmyn

From this it wouldnt be inconceivable to have a fake housing that covered the original card reader…

It would be card reader> data logger > data spoofer coil > original card reader. That way the user would be unaware of the card data being taken hostage. The card would be read, recorded, and immediately repeated to the real card reader to give the user access while stealing the goods.

Posted at 1:35 pm on Aug 5th, 2008 by Frollard

I hate it when people mix an ipod into their hacks as an attempt to sound “hip”. any crappy portable audio device could have been used. even a cassette walkman if you really want to be ghetto. as Taylor mentioned, a microcontroller would be ideal for this step.

Posted at 2:06 pm on Aug 5th, 2008 by walter

The device used in the Terminator 2 movie was an Atari Portfolio.

While parallel/serial add-on ports did exist, I doubt very much that the “crack” (fuck you hackaday) was real.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Portfolio
http://www.atari-portfolio.co.uk/library/pf-demos/pin.zip

(When the hell will you guys allow capital letters? do they infect your Wind0wz systems?)

Posted at 3:09 pm on Aug 5th, 2008 by Geek505

This page is a gold mine of info!
Many thanks for making it simple to understand.

kruzer

Posted at 3:45 pm on Aug 5th, 2008 by kruzer

Been done plenty of times before, but good collection of info and howtos.

Posted at 4:37 pm on Aug 5th, 2008 by Chalupa

I once make something like this except I used a needle and my PDA. I wrote a custom “phonebook” style app for my PDA that would allow me to play people’s university IDs into card readers (all I ever used it for was getting into my friend’s buildings without them having to run down and open the door for me).

Posted at 5:13 pm on Aug 5th, 2008 by srbg

You still need the pin number….

It has been happening here in NZ, the theif will put a card reader over the original card slot, so that the card will pass through it and into the original card reader on the ATM. It would store a copy of the card, while a camera up above recorded the pin number the user entered.

Posted at 6:32 pm on Aug 5th, 2008 by Orac

@Geek505: Yeah, because even the old ATM machines required human intervention. You couldn’t control anything from bit states on mag stripes; and still can’t.

The t2 device was suppose to be a brute force tool I guess. Even if human intervention wasn’t required, the 8 bit chip would take at least a few hours to find something seeing as the numbers where so long, and bytes.

It’d still work on mag stripe locks though.

Posted at 3:03 am on Aug 6th, 2008 by TJHooker

@Geek505 if you really hate the lack of caps you should install greasemonkey (assuming you’re using firefox) use a custom CSS to overwrite the sites style and display caps in the comments (they’re there, just displayed in all lowercase through CSS).

c’mon man… where’s the hacking spirit, if you don’t like how something works hack it… websites shouldn’t be exempt. ;)

Posted at 8:11 am on Aug 6th, 2008 by twistedsymphony

For caps, just get Firebug for Firefox.
Lets you edit a website’s HTML, CSS, etc etc > on-the-fly < .

It’s really powerful for web development ideas, or just plain turning off lowercase letters in the CSS style ;)

Posted at 11:52 am on Aug 6th, 2008 by Eric

If you actually read the tutorial, you’ll see that I refer to a “personal music player” and not an iPod throughout the steps. It just so happens that an iPod is all I had at the moment, and so thats what ended up in the pictures.

Also, I had been toying with a design involving a microcontroller and an H-bridge, which should be even better than the current setup, but chose to go with this one because I want to write an iPhone app that lets me key in arbitrary data streams to be transmitted to the coil. Yes, that too could be done completely digitally, but going out through the headphone jack of the iPhone is a lot easier than taking apart a data cable.

:p

Posted at 9:15 pm on Aug 7th, 2008 by powerpants

mate walter ipod it is a bit of a hip as playstation 1, 2 & 3 were and are.
It is all in the hacking spirit as mentioned!! I think it would be a better laugh if he is running ipod linux!!!

Posted at 12:38 am on Aug 21st, 2008 by tsiou