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August 13, 2011 05:55 am GMT

Skimming Jonathan's Card For Fun And Philanthrophy

sbux-cardIf you've been reading the internet regularly this week, you're probably familiar with Jonathan's card, a "social payment experiment" amounting to a public Starbucks gift card. You might have bought a coffee. You might have contributed. You might have suspected it of being a Starbucks viral (it isn't).What you probably haven't done is set up a script to skim money off the card in order to use it for your own nefarious purposes. And by "nefarious purposes," I mean feeding starving children in Africa. Here comes the ethics!

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