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Originally Posted by DougFNJ
Just a head's up regarding magnets and credit cards. One day I was watching the show Mythbusters on Discovery Channel. They had a segment directly related to magnets and credit cards....they couldn't find a magnet strength out there that was able to erase or scramble the data from a credit card.
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Is data still stored magnetically on credit cards? We've had "chip and PIN" cards here in Europe for some years now, where all the info is on a microchip in the card, and you authorise a transaction by entering a PIN number rather than signing a sales slip. I'd imagine that they'd be pretty immune to magnetic fields.