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Jitter

Jitter is an anti-skimming technique that distorts the readout of the magnetic strip by altering the speed or motion of the card as it is swiped or pulled into a card reader or ATM. Jitter is designed to make any information copied by a card skimmer unreadable, and thus unusable.

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