I see. DSS cards can practically be broken and bent to one's submission quite easily, actually. You just need the proper warez buddies >:-] Off the shelf card reader/writers are all you need. However, you can't just grab data out of the card. It's nothing at all like a smartmedia card, or a floppy disk. It's more like talking to the floppy controller. Now imagine that everyone makes a different floppy controller design that's totally incompatible with other implementations. That's the fun that is a smart card. Enough people are having enough fun pirating DSS that they kinda forced themselves to get this kind of thing working. I wouldn't recommend messing with your Blue card, though. DSS reverts back to what you legally have access to after a while. I don't know if your Blue card would be so lucky, and unless you know exactly what you're interfacing to... *shudder* "Whoa! I didn't spend 30,000 dollars on a toilet seat last week!" If it were just a memory card, then you'd at least *know* when you're reading and when you're writing. CK On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Vito wrote: > Chris Kalos wrote: > > > > That brings to mind, what *do* you need to deal with smart cards for? > > Just to futz. :) > > I've got an American Express Blue card, which has a smart card chip, my > satellite receiver smart card, and a few others of unknown type > (friend's relative is fairly high up in Schlumberger). I've got two > PC/SC smart card readers, and I just want to poke around on the cards, > see what different things do, that sort of thing. > > Unfortunately, most of the DSS stuff I was pointed to requires more > low-level access to the card reader, which usually means a hand-made one > hanging off a parallel or serial port. > > You'd think there'd be a "Smart Card Explorer" that lets you look at all > the data stored on a card, no? > > --Vito > > -- > Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to> Wear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org > > -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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