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Old June 28th 14, 11:39 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default TfL acknowledges contactless technology risk

On 24/06/2014 20:18, CJB wrote:
If you touch your Oyster card on a yellow card reader when it's in the same
wallet or purse as another contactless card, the reader may detect more than
one card. When this happens, the card reader doesn't know which one to read
so rejects them and you could experience any of the following:


That's a strange way to describe it.

If there is more than one contactless cards present it's likely that
they will respond to the readers energy field at the same time and the
reader will just see a corrupt response.

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