Credit Card Vigilantes – Skim Reaper

February 12, 2020 Hosted by Parker Dillmann, Stephen Kraig

Patrick Traynor and Christian Peeters join Parker and Stephen to discuss detecting Credit Card Skimming devices and the Skim Reaper device.

Patrick Traynor

  • CEO of Skim Reaper
  • The Dasburg Family Preeminent Chair in Engineering in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida

Christian Peeters

  • CTO of Skim Reaper
  • Ph.D Student in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida

Skim Reaper

  • What is Skim Reaper
    • How does it work?
    • Behind the name
      • Did you know that when your PCB’s first hit our production line we thought you were manufacturing a skimming device!
    • Swipe vs Chip
  • How did you start? What was the beginning of the project?
  • The hardware itself
    • Form Factor challenges
    • Engineering Roadblocks you had to overcome?
  • Growing your business
    • What is your method for getting media coverage to spread the news about the Skim Reaper device
    • Plans for future growth and market expansion
  • So if someone detects a skimmer..what do they do?

Hosts: Parker Dillmann, Stephen Kraig

Special thanks to whixr over at Tymkrs for the intro and outro!