Using a Square Reader with a reel-to-reel
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Using a Square Reader with a reel-to-reel
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#2That is an awesome hack! Kudos to you. It's one of those things that initially sound too hard to believe, but then you think about it and go oh yeah.... why not?
Brilliant! Very well done.
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#3Should have called it reel-to-real.
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#4EDIT: Sorry, this sounds unduly negative. It isn't meant to!
It's cool and everything, but I can't help thinking that dragging an electrical output from after the real reel-to-reel head would have been better.
Is that just me?
Anyway, now you've done it you can make neat echo / loop effects by splicing tape around some reels.
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#5Square says (https://squareup.com/reader): "Square is PCI-DSS Level 1 compliant and the Square Card Reader is fully encrypted. Data encryption occurs at the moment of the credit card swipe" and has an image of the reader with 'Security Encryption' pointing to the reader itself (see the page).
On the detail page about security (https://help.squareup.com/customer/portal/articles/7764) it says: "Fully encrypted: Square performs data encryption within the card reader at the moment of swipe."
Yet, the app in this article appears to be simply recording audio from the head.
So, what's going on?
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#6Square says ( https://squareup.com/reader ): "Square is PCI-DSS Level 1 compliant and the Square Card Reader is fully encrypted. Data encryption occurs at the moment of the credit card swipe" and has an image of the reader with 'Security Encryption' pointing to the reader itself (see the page). On the detail page about security ( https://help.squareup.com/customer/portal/articles/7764 ) it says: "Fully encrypted: Squ…
The reader has changed since its initial launch. Not sure which model he is using.
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#7Square says ( https://squareup.com/reader ): "Square is PCI-DSS Level 1 compliant and the Square Card Reader is fully encrypted. Data encryption occurs at the moment of the credit card swipe" and has an image of the reader with 'Security Encryption' pointing to the reader itself (see the page). On the detail page about security ( https://help.squareup.com/customer/portal/articles/7764 ) it says: "Fully encrypted: Squ…
Maybe the Square app initiates hardware encryption in the reader. Therefore, without the app, it's not enabled.
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#8Square says ( https://squareup.com/reader ): "Square is PCI-DSS Level 1 compliant and the Square Card Reader is fully encrypted. Data encryption occurs at the moment of the credit card swipe" and has an image of the reader with 'Security Encryption' pointing to the reader itself (see the page). On the detail page about security ( https://help.squareup.com/customer/portal/articles/7764 ) it says: "Fully encrypted: Squ…
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Re: Using a Square Reader with a reel-to-reel
#9Square says ( https://squareup.com/reader ): "Square is PCI-DSS Level 1 compliant and the Square Card Reader is fully encrypted. Data encryption occurs at the moment of the credit card swipe" and has an image of the reader with 'Security Encryption' pointing to the reader itself (see the page). On the detail page about security ( https://help.squareup.com/customer/portal/articles/7764 ) it says: "Fully encrypted: Squ…
Maybe the Square app initiates hardware encryption in the reader. Therefore, without the app, it's not enabled.
I think this is it. Square probably means that as they read the bits from the reader they are being encrypted, then sent. Not stored and plain text then encrypted before being sent.
There are already plenty of examples of people hacking Squares[1], mostly to use them as credit card skimmers though. This is one of the coolest most creative hacks I have seen for it though, bravo.
[1] http://cranklin.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/hacking-the-square/
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#10Square says ( https://squareup.com/reader ): "Square is PCI-DSS Level 1 compliant and the Square Card Reader is fully encrypted. Data encryption occurs at the moment of the credit card swipe" and has an image of the reader with 'Security Encryption' pointing to the reader itself (see the page). On the detail page about security ( https://help.squareup.com/customer/portal/articles/7764 ) it says: "Fully encrypted: Squ…
The reader used in this video an older model. See http://venturebeat.com/2012/03/26/square-adds-encryption-to-...