If Peter Wallace’s recent experience with hotel access cards is an indicator, leaving your electronic hotel room key behind when you check out could leave you open to identity theft... [via] Link. In MAKE volume 01 we showed how you can build your own card reader.

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it’s a hoax! http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/hotelkey.asp
Much of the information in the link is based on a hoax
http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/hotelkey.asp
Please use google before falling for these and other hoax’s
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Make: School’s Out! Summer Fun Guide
This Summer Fun Guide is brimming with over 50 projects for kids of all ages. You’ll also find inspiring young maker profiles, as well as tool reviews written for and by kids! Plus, it’s our 3D issue, complete with 3D glasses and tons of super-cool 3D photos!
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