[Gllug] Oyster cards vulnerable?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 11:24:39PM +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 03:02:35PM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> There has to be some reason why paper tickets suddenly became so
> expensive.  It's not because paper itself is more expensive than the
> fancy cards.  It can't be because of the cost of hauling cash around
> (people still pay for their Oyster top-ups using cash).

They delibrately made the paper tickets more expensive to "force"
people to switch to Oyster so they could then track you ;-) Clearly
the solution to this is to get together with a group of friends, all
buy month long oyster tickets & then randomly use a different one
each day. At least it'll screw up their profiling :-)

Dan.
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