Re: Whaaat? Turning it off and on again is not allowed?
"Joking aside, I've seen a shopkeeper place my card with a cracked magnetic strip into a fold of a polythene bag, and it worked."
That's not surprising at all. A magstripe contains no moving parts, not even electrons. You can cut and slice it, as long as you put back all the bits in order, it'll be perfectly readable. Precisely like any sort of linear magnetic records, eg audio tapes.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
