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Old November 21st 03, 09:56 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Security of Oyster Cards

Gareth Davis wrote:

The more the MiFare cards are rolled out round the world then the
higher the return to be made from cracking them. Or to put it into
perspective, I think it is fair to say that more people will soon be
using the MiFare system each day in London alone than used the pay TV
system of ITV digital whose smart cards were hacked at great expense
(to the hackers).


The smartcard/encryption used by ITV digital was the SECA system developed
by CANAL+ and used widely throughout Europe on other pay-TV networks. Far
more people than the 1.1 million ITV digital subscribers stood to be able to
benefit from the system being cracked.

 
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