[Gllug] Oyster cards vulnerable?

[Richard Jones]

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).

Rich.

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