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On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:20:48 +0000
David Cantrell wrote:
On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 01:28:00PM -0000, Paul Scott wrote:
"David Cantrell" wrote in message
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On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 07:21:13AM -0800, Mizter T wrote:
I think it's simply the journalist getting in a muddle and jumping to
erroneous conclusions. I don't believe there's any 'long distance'
sensing or reading of Oyster cards going on whatsoever.
Another thread has mentioned reading them en masse and at a distance
when stations have particularly heavy traffic, such as just before
football games, with no need for passengers to put their cards
anywhere
near the readers.
That was confirmed soon afterwards to be the original journalist talking
******** in his article, as pointed out in one of the threads.

Ah, fair enough. And good.

Given a powerful enough directed RF signal you could certainly power up
and
send signals to an Oyster card from a distance.

Only of you wanted to fry the human holding it, at the same time

tim