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Old June 26th 14, 12:54 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default TfL acknowledges contactless technology risk



"Piatkow" wrote in message
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I am not sure what people expect but how is a card reader expected to
"know" which card to debit if you have a couple of contactless payment
cards in your wallet? (More of an issue on buses at the moment)


It certainly seems reasonable that the reader should be "intelligent" and
look for:

Freedom pass
Oyster with relevant season
Oyster with PAYG balance

before randomly selecting debiting your CC

Even if it can't (for whatever technical reason TfL can think of) actually
intelligently charge the correct card from the above list , it should
certainly decide not to charge the CC if one of the others is found.

tim