On Jun 19, 8:57 am, Mwmbwls wrote:
No longer. Wouter Teepe and Bart Jacobs, from Radboud University,
today told the Dutch parliament that they'd cracked and cloned
London's Oyster card. They were able to not only take free rides on
the Underground, but even execute a denial-of-service attack on the
gates. Check out a Google translation here of an article, by
Webwereld's Brenno de Winter, on the subject.

DOS attack on the gates? Hmm , there must be some dodgy software in
the gates because the gate hardware should easily be able to keep up
with any DOS the card hardware could attempt.

Still, if it is cracked I won't be shedding any tears for LUL or TfL.
Serves them bloody right.

B2003