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Old November 21st 03, 09:17 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Martin Rich Martin Rich is offline
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Default Security of Oyster Cards

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 12:41:45 GMT, Helen Deborah Vecht
wrote:

Martin Rich typed

There aren't any BT phonecards (at least in the sense of cards that
you load value onto and put in a public phone) any more. However the
first generation of BT phone cards were reputed to be very easy to
hack - this sounds like why


Aren't there?

What became of 'phonecard plus'?


My source is http://www.payphones.bt.com/2001/pho...s/prepaid.html
- this does talk about various dates in April and Septamber 2003 in
the future tense, so it may not be completely authoritative (if you
see what I mean)

Martin