[Gllug] Oyster cards vulnerable?

[Christopher Hunter]

On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 15:02 +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.

Not according the "Evening Standard".  It's typically wooly "thinking"
from politicians who simply don't understand technology at all, and will
be as poorly implemented as every government IT project.  Luddism is
alive and well in the "corridors of power"!

C.




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