On Jul 14, 10:02 am, Roland Perry wrote:
That's a fascinating conspiracy theory, but the only cards that are
supposed to be disabled are ones that were actually used early on
Saturday.

If the mechanism for permanently disabling a card means they have to
be touched to a gate that would rather follow wouldn't it?

As it seems very likely that the problem was a software update gone
wrong, that update might have indeed been about hacked cards - even if
the idea wasn't to disable all the hacked cards [1] by stealth (in
addition to making hacked cards easier to spot).

Software update to what, the cards or the gates? If the latter how can
that brick a card? If it was the former and they were doing a firmware
update to all the cards then they obviously learnt the hard way that
firmware updates should only be done very carefully, and preferably
not at all unless its really really essential. Given LULs track record
however I wouldn't put it past them to do something that dumb.
Alternatively perhaps the cards have some sort of irreversable kill
switch or flag that was enabled by mistake. Either way , I suspect
we're not going to get the whole story.

B2003