I Dissolved My Credit Card To Understand How It Works
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0:00 Dissolving A Card In Acetone
1:32 The Soviets’ Powerless Bug
6:24 The First Credit Card
8:21 Magnetic Stripe Credit Cards
11:51 How To Clone A Credit Card
13:50 Chip and Pin
18:03 Operation Easy Chair
19:58 How does a contactless card work?
23:39 Digital Pickpocketing
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We’d love to thank some of the experts who helped us on this video.
Firstly, a huge thank you to Neil Smith for sharing his technical and historical knowledge of “The Thing” and operation Easy Chair. These devices are crazy complicated! And Neil (given that he’s actually built a working replica of “The Thing!”) gave invaluable insight into how it works, and detailed feedback on early versions of the video. You can see even a more detailed explanation of “The Thing” from Neil here – "Leon Theremin Changed Spying FOREVER with this 1940s invention!", on his channel: @MachiningandMicrowaves
Thanks to R. Paul Wilson for a comprehensive overview of the potential ways that credit cards and contactless payments can be compromised, and for connecting us with Christopher Forte. A big thank you to Christopher for his technical advice on different attack vectors for NFC transactions, his insights into the “cat and mouse game” between hackers and security providers, and feedback on different parts of the video.
Thanks to Pavel Zhovner, CEO of Flipper Devices, for talking us through the various security layers in NFC transactions, showing us round the Flipper HQ, and even giving us several Flippers to experiment and film with!
Thanks as well to Tony Sales, for his candid – and thoroughly entertaining(!) – recounts of credit card vulnerabilities, and explaining the work he does today in testing them.
Thanks to @mkbhd and his team for filming all the different demo’s with us – and of course, putting himself forward for the hack we’ll cover in part 2 of this video!
And last but definitely not least, a big thank you to professors Tom Chothia and Ioana Boureanu, for their technical support on the video, and of course, talking us through in great detail and even lending us the equipment for the hack we’ll be attempting in part 2!
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References: https://ve42.co/Spies&CardsRefs
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Writers: James Moore, Casper Mebius & Henry van Dyck
Producer & Director: James Moore
Presenters: Derek Muller & Henry van Dyck
Editor: Peter Nelson
Animators: Andrew Neet, Domonkos Józsa, Alex Drakoulis & Mike Radjabov
Illustrator: Jakub Misiek
Assistant Writers: Aakash Singh Bagga & Darius Garewal
Assistant Editor: James Stuart
Researchers: Aakash Singh Bagga, Darius Garewal & Callum Cuttle
Camera Operators: Andrew Abballe, Henry van Dyck, Gregor Čavlović & Andy Perez
Thumbnail Designers: Abdallah Rabah, Ren Hurley & Ben Powell
Production Team: Jess Bishop-Laggett, Matthew Cavanagh, Anna Milkovic & Sulli Yost
Executive Producers: Derek Muller & Casper Mebius
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