Nice writeup. I did something much like this in 2002 or 2003. The main difference was that I was malicious, trying to steal money from other students.
I went to Rochester Institute of Tech. The number shown on your card and encoded on the mag stripe were your ID number.
I had plastic card printers and an encoder so making a fake was no problem. The design was simple so it didn't take me long to make one that looked exactly like the real thing.
How did I get numbers to encode? At that time they distributed grades to students in folders outside each department's office. These grade sheets had your full ID number on them. All I had to do was dig through the folders and take grade sheets from people who hadn't bothered picking theirs up.
I think I only used one or two numbers to buy some stuff from The Corner Store. I was mainly doing it to see if I could, credit card fraud was far more profitable.
One of the worst parts about it was that the student IDs were your social security number. Had I wanted to I could have easily used the data and fake IDs for identity theft.
I went to Rochester Institute of Tech. The number shown on your card and encoded on the mag stripe were your ID number.
I had plastic card printers and an encoder so making a fake was no problem. The design was simple so it didn't take me long to make one that looked exactly like the real thing.
How did I get numbers to encode? At that time they distributed grades to students in folders outside each department's office. These grade sheets had your full ID number on them. All I had to do was dig through the folders and take grade sheets from people who hadn't bothered picking theirs up.
I think I only used one or two numbers to buy some stuff from The Corner Store. I was mainly doing it to see if I could, credit card fraud was far more profitable.
One of the worst parts about it was that the student IDs were your social security number. Had I wanted to I could have easily used the data and fake IDs for identity theft.