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Old January 4th 16, 09:15 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Oyster outage
On 04/01/2016 09:48, d wrote:
On Sun, 03 Jan 2016 17:32:16 +0000
Paul Corfield wrote:

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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Presumably the "read" part of the above has some form of linked
reconciliation which quickly identifies and blocks those cards?
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