Cracking the credit card code (I always wondered)

[zridling]

"Those 16 digits are there for a reason and, knowing a few simple rules, you could actually learn a lot about a credit card just from its number. This infographic shows you how to crack that code."

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[Deozaan]

Wow, that's cool.

[Renegade]

Now how do I get the expiry, name and CCV?

[Xenonym]

I have always like these infographics done by Jess. Really helps to get the point across for complicated subjects.

There are a few more he's done here: http://infographics.byjess.net/.

[Eóin]

Interesting, worked on my Mastercard. Now the real question is how do I generate new valid credit card details.

[Xenonym]

Here's a link to a page that generates syntactically valid credit card numbers: http://www.darkcoding.net/credit-card-numbers/

Of course, they can't actually be used, these are probably for testing your own e-commerce script or something like that.

[zridling]

There are a few more he's done here: http://infographics.byjess.net/.

Thanks Xenonym, I love those.