Anyone with $699 to spare can buy a magnetic stripe code reader/writer that can, according to a sales pitch, "change any information you'd like including balance and credit information" after a single swipe of the card. Seventy bucks at the same site will buy you a keystroke logger with an 8,000-stroke memory, while for a mere $25 you can get a product that claims to be able make it "impossible for a video or still camera to take a legible photograph of your license plate number." Think you know your enemy? You'd better check out the hacker technology Web page that is this month's Site to See to find out whether you really do, and whether you know what kind of technology he or she has access to.
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