On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 11:02:42 +0000, k wrote:

On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 16:02:19 +0000, Jason
wrote:

lost?

Otherwise, if someone found/stole a card, the value coould be emptied
into paper tickets to be sold on - a tout's dream!

A bit like you can with a stolen credit/debit card, you mean?

True, but TfL can only exercise policy over their own products.

New ticket machines with Chip and PIN in full swing are needed to stop
this. This is roughly what happens in Melbourne, Australia: ticket
machines require a PIN number for a debit card transaction - much like
a cash machine.

Anyway, IME, most ticket machines only allow one transaction per day
per credit or debit card, so there is *some* security.

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In article .com,
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You have never actually been able to do that. The large touch screen
machines at some stations (Tottenham court road and others) used to
have a pay by oyster option but there was a sign saying not to use it

I did it on more than one occasion at Finchley Central (usually to
get a single zone extension). There was no sign visable.

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