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Man Hacks Skylanders, Gets Nasty Letter From Activision Hee-hee — The lawyers are after the wrong guy

Skylanders Hacking | - Sun Cries — The knowledge of how the Skylanders figures work is much more valuable than level-up downloads for blank RFIDs

I guessed that the Skylanders figures work by having RFIDs inside them.  I didn’t know that the RFIDs they have are read/write — They have 1K of flash RAM in them.   That’s how they store their level info, etc.