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Advanced credit cards have electronic chips which are difficult to crack.
先进的信用卡有电子芯片，也因此很难被破解。
But many of them also have magnetic strips, so they can be used on older card readers usually in small stores and gas pumps.
但很多信用卡有磁条，所以它们也能在一些小商店和加油站使用，
And that's where they get compromised.
在这些地方使用磁条卡有风险。
Credit cards are read using something called a card reader or a read head.
信用卡是用读卡器或读头来读的。
All at any given time only one read head should be present in a card slot.
在任何特定的时间，每个卡槽应该有一个读头。
Crooks simply attach their own card readers onto the existing ones.
窃贼只是把他们自己的读卡器附在已有的读卡器上。
And when a customer inserts the credit card, the extra reader retrieves all the information needed to create a perfect copy.
当顾客插入信用卡时，他们的读取器会获得能创建完美副本所需的所有信息。
This type of crime is widespread especially in large cities such as New York
这种类型的犯罪在纽约这样的大城市尤其普遍，
where only four detectives are trained to spot extra readers attached to ATMs.
当地只有四名侦探接受过发现ATM额外读卡器的训练。
Now their task may become easier with a device called the Skim Reaper,
现在，他们的任务可能会变得更容易了，因为有一种叫做“Skim Reaper”的设备，
invented by a group of students at the University of Florida led by professor Patrick Traynor.
是佛罗里达大学教授帕特里克·特莱诺带领学生发明的。
We're glad to be able to produce something that will curb the tide.
我们很高兴能创造出这样一种力挽狂澜的东西。
The device consists of an electronic card about twice as long as the regular credit card attached to a box with a digital display.
该设备由一张电子卡片组成，长度是普通卡片的一倍，这张卡连接一个带有显示屏的盒子。
When inserted in the ATM slot, the digital display immediately reveals the presence of an extra card reader.
当插入到ATM插槽时，显示屏会立即显示有额外读卡器。
So impressed with their technology and their wit on how to come up with this machine to detect skimming devices.
他们的技术和智慧让我印象深刻，他们发明了读卡探测器。
The parts for the card reader detector costs about 50 dollars.
读卡检测器的部件成本约为50美元。
But its inventor say they're trying to make it cheaper and smaller,
但发明者称他们试图降低价格，让它变得更加小巧，
so that even untrained law enforcement officers can use it on a daily basis.
这样没有受过训练的执法人员也可以每天使用它。
George Putic VOA News.
VOA记者乔治·普提克报道。
