On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 08:31:36PM +0000, Matthew Geier wrote:

And the Singapore card has a better antenna - I discovered that the LU
gates were still getting upset - I had removed my oyster from my wallet
and was placing it on the reader to open the gates - but as I walked
through the gates beeped. It dawned on me later, the Oyster pad must have
been getting a response from the Singapore CEPAS card as I walked through
the gate - at range of over 20cm between my hip pocket and the Oyster
reader pad.

And yet people still think contactless payment systems are a good idea.

Proprietary stored value cards that only work in closed systems like
Oyster aren't so bad, but I wouldn't feel particularly happy at
accidentally paying for the purchases of the person in front of me in
the queue at the petrol station.

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