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Old January 4th 16, 08:48 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Oyster outage

On Sun, 03 Jan 2016 17:32:16 +0000
Paul Corfield wrote:
I haven't seen the precise detail of why downloads seemingly failed
but I am not as deeply sceptical as some on here about the table
testing process. All the "oh they can't have tested it properly"
comments are unlikely to be true. There were / are very well


Well they quite evidently didn't test for some condition otherwise the failure
wouldn't have occured.

This is simple. Oyster cards hold value on the card and are read,
processed and then written back to with an updated balance and journey
history. In order to work out a PAYG fare or extension fare then you


I'd love to know how many hacked Oysters or DIY cards are out there that
can be loaded with a random value and/or don't decrement the value.

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