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ajitvarma on June 16, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Using a Square Reader with a reel-to-reel

The new readers are also white. Look very similar to the old ones but slightly thicker.

xorbyte on June 17, 2012 [–]

Well, I do own a black reader, so perhaps Square moved back to using white at some point. But there have been white readers unable to encrypt the data out 'in the wild', and I suspect this project used one of those.

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