Low coercivity stripes are more receptive towards magenetic field, thus they are easily damaged by third-party magnetic fields.Įach type of stripes has its pros and cons. Basically, data from a high coercivity stripe is harder to erase. High coercitivity stripes offer a higher security feature, and is more guarded against damages from third-party magnetic field.
Magnetic stripes are magnetic particles deposited to form a plastic-like film.Recent technology has allowed two forms of magnetic stripes, high and low coercivity magnetic stripe. These magnetic strips can usually be found at the back of cards in a form of a dark band or stripe. Credit cards, bank cards even corporate membership cards have them encoded nowadays, as a way to store information on the card.
Magnetic stripes are widely used in the commercial world today.
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