Archive for May, 2012

Your Credit Card Needs a Tin Foil Hat

I recently discovered something interesting about how PayPass works. I was testing out NFC tags for my website LikeScan.com, when i learned that NFC tags can be read AND written by a smartphone (specific phones that are NFC enabled like the Samsung Galaxy Nexus). I was immediately intrigued and decided to do a thought experiment. […]

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Samsung USB Driver for Galaxy Nexus

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I wanted to load a QR code app onto my new Galaxy Nexus. The Nexus did not appear in Eclipse as a device, and I found that I need to get a USB driver. On the Samsung website (http://www.samsung.com/us/support/downloads), they have two options, Verizon (SCH-I515MSAVZW) and Sprint (SPH-L700ZKASPR). This is not helpful since I am […]

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