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Old Oct 8, 2010 | 12:22 pm
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Originally Posted by cordelli
That's why this changes the stripe on the card, so you can use any current card reader out there.
And so long as it's a mag stripe, any thief can still make a perfect clone of the card too; except he can now make four clones from a single card.

Seriously, what in the world is Citibank thinking? Calling something that is at best credit card version 1.4 and trying to market that as "too-gee" like it's an "in-with-the-times" buzzword?
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