Decode your Driver's License

[Theophylact]

Its 2d barcode, at any rate: find out what data on you it's storing.

You can either do this online, or download a smallish (250K) Java app that'll run locally.

What's on your card? I dunno. But you can ffind out, if your license is from one of the 39 states that use 2D barcodes.

(Thanks to Slashdot for the link.)

[desmocat]

'taint nothing on mine...
yea, it's got a barcode, but I was a bad boy one day and saw some dirt on the magnetic strip.
So, being the good citizen that I am, I wiped the dirt off.

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with a magnet out of a hard drive...

Got tugged by the highway patrol about 6 months after that, and darn darn darn... his little reader didn't work on it...
EDIT>
Doh!! thats an optical barcode they speak of kinda like the ones UPS uses? ..I toopid..
My DL has a mag strip at the top and a conventional barcode at the bottom..

Cool idea, but I would rather read the "data" from my barcode right on my hdd without submitting it to an outside party.

After a more thorough reading I don't know that I'll be submitting any info until I'm sure I know where it's going and what will happen to it if I do.

This, though, is very cool:

http://turbulence.org/Works/swipe/calculator.html