Oyster Card System Failure
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On Jul 25, 9:35 am, Adrian wrote:
gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
saying:
Besides which , its only now that the exploit has come out and TfL are
panicking. When/if it was underground (excuse the pun) before , they'd
have been in blissful ignorance.
Which is precisely why disclosure is good.
Indeed. Though from what I've read theres probably not all that much
that can be done against this exploit without changing the hardware.
I'll bet a fiver that they'll have to slowly migrate over to the newer
cards using 3DES for Oyster in the coming years.
B2003
Isn't it an immutable law that anything designed by people can be cracked by
people - it's just a question of how long it takes!
MaxB
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