[Gllug] Oyster cards vulnerable?

[Bruce Richardson]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 06:06:07PM +0000, Christopher wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 09:33 +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> 
> > How would it make the credit card transactions more vulnerable?  The
> > combined card places separate technologies on the same piece of plastic.
> 
> Not as it's proposed!  Livingstone's plan to make Oyster a "payment
> card" depends on RF-based credit transfer.  It's a scarily stupid idea.

I think you are conflating his proposals and the Barclaycard ones.

-- 
Bruce

I must admit that the existence of Disneyland (which I know is real)
proves that we are not living in Judea in AD 50. -- Philip K. Dick
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